The Screening:
film/performance/exhibition by Ariane Michel

“One night, in a forest. Owls, ferrets, foxes... The usual activities of the beasts are disrupted by rays of lights: it’s a group of humans. They sit in front of a big white surface onto which, when it’s dark again, shadows start moving.”

This synopsis is both the narration of a performance, and the one of the film it featured. Last June, in Basel, an audience has, indeed, been guided into a forest by torchlight. Then people sat in a glade and the projection of a film started. As the film played, a continuity with the truth appeared: The film was the present situation, but in the point of view of the surrounding forest. A «mise en abyme>>: not fairly a duplication but a distorting mirror that endlessly stretched reality from behind the bushes.
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Courtesy Jousse Entreprise Paris: www.jousse-entreprise.com

Cinema: Les Hommes (Man on Land)
Date:    30 May (Fri)
Time:    7:30 pm
Venue:  Hong Kong Arts Centre ,agnes b. Cinema
Tickets: $50 / $30* (HK Ticketing)

Co-produced by Ariane Michel & “Love Streams – agnes b. Productions”

Type of film: documentary 2006
Language: French
Duration: 1 hr 35 mins
Award: Grand Prize of French Competition, International Documentary Festival of Marseilles 2006
Summary:
At the furthermost bounds of a frozen sea, a boat approaches a land.  Human silhouettes come out of it, they appear strange. From their immutable world, the ice, the stones and the animals of Greenland witness the arrival of scientists who come a summer to study them.  This film proposes an experience to the viewer: to lie inside the lookout of a wild island so as to observe the presence of human beings.  To adopt another vision of the world that allows a trip in the heart of things, an eyes-open dream in which Nature observes.

(To make this film, Ariane Michel traveled with a scientist’s expedition which explored Greenland in 2004 on the polar ship Tara.)