Hors Pistes 2017 : Traversées
12ème édition
25 Jan - 12 Feb 2017
HORS PISTES 2017 : TRAVERSÉES
12ème édition
25 January 2017 - 12 February 2017
Every year, the Hors Pistes festival of the moving image comes up with an interdisciplinary programme that takes some socially significant topic as its theme. A topical theme that is arousing feelings in the world, a theme only too often sorrowful. Hors Pistes this year takes its inspiration from the words of writer and artist Fabrice Reymond: “Lined up on the quay are those allowed to watch us leave and they become what we do too: black silhouettes on the horizon, stitched between heaven and earth.”
Traversées: crossings. Crossings upon and under the water. Boats laden with goods. Rubber dinghies and wrecks waiting to happen carrying refugees. The passage of data along undersea cables slinking through the deeps. The sea, stage of so many dramas, covers 70 % of Earth’s surface. Today, they sustain 60% of the world’s ecosystems, connect 85% of our algorithms, carry some 9.8 billion tons of cargo. Three hundred thousand refugees and migrants attempted the crossing of the Mediterranean in 2016.
Without any lawful ruler in international waters, sometimes vague of boundary about the coasts; abused through the ages by pirates, smugglers, corsairs of every stripe, the sea is a world of myth, from yesterdays’ explorers to today’s migrants swallowed by the waves. Words, colours, images, voices and musics have sought to seize its contours, penetrate its mysteries, from Homer to Virginia Woolf, from Gaston Bachelard to Franz Kafka, from Fernando Pessoa to Federico Fellini, from Conrad to Godard, from Moby Dick to Blackbeard ...
Waves of sadness, navigating the internet, surfing the web, web piracy, Southern seas, offshore, streaming, current: the sea washes its words, over our stories, our images, our imaginations, our unconscious. Hors Pistes dives into its metaphorical space to offer fifteen “crossings”, each exploring a word or term: open sea, boat, sailor, pirate, map, song, sky, cable, datum, sail, cruise, expedition, superstition, shipwreck, death. An odyssey embarked on with some twenty artists: Clarissa Baumann, Élodie Bremaud, Agnès de Cayeux, Julien Creuzet, Pauline Delwaulle, Facs of Life, Virgile Fraisse, Katia Kameli, Marcus Lindeen, Grégoire Motte, Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quirós, Enrique Ramirez, Fabrice Reymond, Émilie Rousset & Louise Hemon, Andres Salgado and Raphaël Faon, Clarisse Tranchard, Basim Magdy, Miro Soares, Allan Sekula, Antoni Miralda and Mati Diop.
“Crossings of memory. / In the iron carcases of boats as in the head of Mnemosyne, / crossings of words, languages, civilisations. / From the legends of our maps to those of our ancestors, / the crossing translates words into waves and then waves into words, /all meanings afloat on the water” Fabrice Reymond, 2016.
Organiser : DDC / Les cinémas, Sylvie Pras, Geraldine Gomez
12ème édition
25 January 2017 - 12 February 2017
Every year, the Hors Pistes festival of the moving image comes up with an interdisciplinary programme that takes some socially significant topic as its theme. A topical theme that is arousing feelings in the world, a theme only too often sorrowful. Hors Pistes this year takes its inspiration from the words of writer and artist Fabrice Reymond: “Lined up on the quay are those allowed to watch us leave and they become what we do too: black silhouettes on the horizon, stitched between heaven and earth.”
Traversées: crossings. Crossings upon and under the water. Boats laden with goods. Rubber dinghies and wrecks waiting to happen carrying refugees. The passage of data along undersea cables slinking through the deeps. The sea, stage of so many dramas, covers 70 % of Earth’s surface. Today, they sustain 60% of the world’s ecosystems, connect 85% of our algorithms, carry some 9.8 billion tons of cargo. Three hundred thousand refugees and migrants attempted the crossing of the Mediterranean in 2016.
Without any lawful ruler in international waters, sometimes vague of boundary about the coasts; abused through the ages by pirates, smugglers, corsairs of every stripe, the sea is a world of myth, from yesterdays’ explorers to today’s migrants swallowed by the waves. Words, colours, images, voices and musics have sought to seize its contours, penetrate its mysteries, from Homer to Virginia Woolf, from Gaston Bachelard to Franz Kafka, from Fernando Pessoa to Federico Fellini, from Conrad to Godard, from Moby Dick to Blackbeard ...
Waves of sadness, navigating the internet, surfing the web, web piracy, Southern seas, offshore, streaming, current: the sea washes its words, over our stories, our images, our imaginations, our unconscious. Hors Pistes dives into its metaphorical space to offer fifteen “crossings”, each exploring a word or term: open sea, boat, sailor, pirate, map, song, sky, cable, datum, sail, cruise, expedition, superstition, shipwreck, death. An odyssey embarked on with some twenty artists: Clarissa Baumann, Élodie Bremaud, Agnès de Cayeux, Julien Creuzet, Pauline Delwaulle, Facs of Life, Virgile Fraisse, Katia Kameli, Marcus Lindeen, Grégoire Motte, Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quirós, Enrique Ramirez, Fabrice Reymond, Émilie Rousset & Louise Hemon, Andres Salgado and Raphaël Faon, Clarisse Tranchard, Basim Magdy, Miro Soares, Allan Sekula, Antoni Miralda and Mati Diop.
“Crossings of memory. / In the iron carcases of boats as in the head of Mnemosyne, / crossings of words, languages, civilisations. / From the legends of our maps to those of our ancestors, / the crossing translates words into waves and then waves into words, /all meanings afloat on the water” Fabrice Reymond, 2016.
Organiser : DDC / Les cinémas, Sylvie Pras, Geraldine Gomez