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Director
Aoife Desmond
Category
ShortExperimental
Paris Dreaming consists of a dual projection of photographic slides and Super 8 film with a separate sound recording. The film, slides and sound document a series of drift walks through the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie and Parc Zoologique at Vincennes in Paris. The filmed encounters with the animals and birds in captivity focus on the relationship between the camera's gaze and the uncomfortable position of the viewer. The soundtrack recorded in the menagerie and the courtyard at the Centre Culturel Irlandais juxtaposes birds and nature in the foreground with a Paris riot in the background. Desmond's art practice questions contemporary human relationships to place and nature.
Notes by Experimental Film Club.
9 minutes, Ireland, 2010, B&W
EAT / SLEEP / CHEER / REPEAT 11.10, 20.40
HOARD 15.45 (OC), 20.30
LA CHIMERA 11:00, 17:40
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 13:20, 20:30
ROME, OPEN CITY 15:50
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:00, 18:05
TIGER STRIPES 13:45, 18:30
WORLD CINEMA PROJECT: CHESS OF THE WIND 15.30
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