ART Films and videos prevail at RENCONTRES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID in December
From
November 30 to December 9, the "Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection
betweennew cinema and contemporary art in Paris:
• at the Centre Pompidou,
• the Jeu de Paume national museum,
• the Châtelet Theatre.
• the Reflet Medicis movie theater.
With the presence of 120 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes many film premieres, a video program,multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions.
A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made up
90% of premieres, can be viewed and reviewed on request. 
This year's programme has been selected from 5500
submissions as well as by invitations made to certain artists and
filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for
works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain and 50 other countries, made up of internationally-known artists and filmmakers as well as young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time. 
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(new fiction, documentaries, video, experimental)
• Carte blanche given to Werner Schroeter (DE) in his presence.
• The second chapter of the retrospective honoring reputed Armenian director, Artavazd Pelechian, initiated last year will be presented by Pelechian.
• The film event Pedro Costa’s latest film Ne Change Rien (2009, sneak-preview) presented by the director and Jeanne Balibar.
• Carte blanche given to Harun Farocki (DE).
• The must-see documentary by Johan Grimonprez (BE) 'Double Take' (2009) which turns the figure of Alfred Hitchcock into a paranoid history professor.
• Two new films by Ken Jacobs (USA), ‘The Day was a scorcher’ and an excerpt from ‘The Sky Socialist Stratified’.
• Sneak-preview screening of the feature film by Christian Merlhiot (FR) ‘Le Procès d’Oscar Wilde’.
• Two short films by Tsaï Ming-liang (TW) including 'Madame Butterfly' (2008) and by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (TH), 'A letter to Uncle Boonmee' (2009)
• The newest works by Hans op de Beeck (BE) - Ben Rivers (UK) -Charlotte Ginsborg (UK) - Julius Ziz (USA) - Zapruder (IT) - Diego Del Pozo Barriuso (ES) - Philip Warnell (UK) - Ariane Michel (FR) - Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FN) – Emmanuelle Antille (CH)
From the programmed artists: Carles Asensio Monrabà (Spain), Patrick Bernatchez (CA), Francois Bucher (CO), Jonathan Cummins (IR),Johanna Domke (DE), Peter Downsbrough (USA), Ivan Faktor (CR),Elise Florenty (FR), Dora Garcia (ES), Bouchra Khalili (MA), Almagul Menlibayeva (KZ), Eleonore de Montesquiou (FR), Natacha Nisic (FR),Vivian Ostrovsky (FR), Antoni Pinent (ES), Jérôme Schlomoff (FR),Volker Schreiner (DE), Yu Chin Tseng (TW), Liu Wei (CN).
Each screening is built around a transversal theme, creating a
questioning that stretches across different forms and audiovisual
practices.
