MARIE LOSIER - THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE / FELIX IN WONDERLAND

MARIE LOSIER - THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE / FELIX IN WONDERLAND

New York filmmaker born in Paris, Marie Losier begins filming, with portraits of people she met in New York, documenting their lives from what she sees and what she feels after many years in theater and painting which had a great influence on her. Then she uses her imagination to represent these characters or situations as in a tableau vivant. Always with the materiality of the film which requires a certain way of working, her cinema develops a mystery, a magical moment.

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MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (Belgium, 1978, Boris Lehman)

MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (Belgium, 1978, Boris Lehman)

¨A living chronicle of the residents of the Béguinage neighborhood – so named because it is situated on the site of the former Brussels béguinage. Designed as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film comprises around thirty chapters, each imbricated with the other, like so many pieces of a puzzle, or resembling a termite mound with many intersecting galleries. It takes place within the space and interstices of a day, starting at dawn and ending at night.¨


-Boris Lehman

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3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, Adlolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle)

3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, Adlolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle)

Adolfas and Jonas Mekas arrived in New York in 1949, leaving their native land, Lithuania, behind, caught between Nazi and Soviet occupation. Little by little the camera became their means of expression and cinema invaded their lives. 27 years passed before they could finally return to Lithuania. This is the odyssey the three films intertwiningly recall: Adolfas and Jonas Mekas and Pola Chapelle (Adolfas'ʼwife) are at once actor and filmer. The Mekas brothers rediscover their country and family with their changes, while Pola Chapelle is the external gaze embracing this reunion. Neither Lithuanian nor New Yorkers, where is their home now? As Jonas likes to say “My Country is Cinema.”

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