Retrospective

Autour de Minuit

Les Brasseurs R.J. present

• Friday march 11th > 19 h 30 > Petit théâtre de l’UQAC

 

Since the release of OBRAS in 2004, Autour de minuit’s films have shined every year through the REGARD festival and carried our public within unusual graphic and sensorial universes. Renowned for their innovative aesthetic qualities, these productions resort to new technologies while making the most of unexploited visual territories where hybridization of techniques, supports and styles are at the heart of the artistic process in order to offer totally new visual experiences.

Nicolas Schmerkin, Autour de Minuit’s founder and director, stood out early in the international circuit thanks to his avant-garde manner of tackling the short film. So well that, in 2006, he was granted the Procirep award for best French-speaking producer of shorts and received the 2010 Oscar for best animated short with Logorama. Moreover, he also received more than 200 festival awards for the various films produced.

Don’t hesitate and jump at one of the rare opportunities to see all these masterpieces gathered within one single program!

• Lila of Collectif Broadcast
  France > 2009 > documentary experimental > 12 min 25 s

  This must be the wood, she said thoughtfully to herself, where things have no names

• Carlitopolis of Luis Nieto
  France > 2006 > experimental > 3 min 10 s

  Carlito, a small laboratory mouse, is subjected to all kinds of experiences…

• Dix of Bif
  France/United Kingdom/England > 2008 > fiction > 7 min

  Marc needs the paving stones on which he walks and fears stepping on the lines. He starts a treatment to overcome his phobia…

• Obras of Hendrick Dusollier
  France > 2004 > animation > 12 min

  A poetic wandering through Barcelona’s urban mutations, between its destruction and rebuilding.

• Dog Days of Geoffroy De Crécy
  France > 2006 > animation > 15 min

  Grace, last-born of an American bourgeois family, is traded at birth for Doug, the small puppy of a redneck family.

• Œdipe of Capucine
  Japan > 2008 > animation, experimentation > 35 mm > 7 min

  Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He blinded himself after having fulfilled a prophecy saying he would kill his father and marry his mother. Two thousand years later: what if the oracle completely missed the point?

• MRDRCHAIN of Ondrej Svadlena
  Czech Republic /France > 2010 > animation > 10 min

  The trials and tribulations of Sliceman in the dark and frightening land of the murderchain.

• Flesh of Edouard Salier
  France > 2005 > animation > 10 min

  The Empire unveils everything but sees nothing. Its enemies idealize everything but tolerate nothing. The cathodic whores’ earthly orgasm for the ones. The 70 virgins’ eternal orgasm for the others.