João Pedro Rodrigues
Intégrale
Installation with João Rui Guerra da Mata
João Pedro Rodrigues, Odete, 2005 © Rosa Filmes / Epicentre Films ©
Joao Pedro Rodrigues et Joao Rui Guerra da Mata © Festival del film Locarno ©
This event is organized by the Cinémas du Département du développement culturel du Centre Pompidou in conjunction with the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Partnership with France Culture, and Trois Couleurs
From the midst of the extremely vibrant Portuguese cinema scene, the unique work of João Pedro Rodrigues has been winning over audiences since the end of the 1990’s with a total of eighteen films to the present day. His films breathe new life into cinema genres, such as the fantastical post-Fantômas, the melodrama following on from Sirk and Fassbinder, and the film noir following in the footsteps of Sternberg...As bewitching as the sovereign desires that they stir up, his films have earned him immediate recognition in the major film festivals. O Fantasma, Odete and To Die Like a Man follow their characters through the meanderings of their obsessions, from the difficulties of the here and now towards their overcoming of them. Via a glittering array of genders and genres, sexual, animal and cinematographic alike, the bodies of the actors undergo a constant process of metamorphosis, and with it, the films themselves. In collaboration with João Rui Guerra as artistic director, he has also co-directed several short films and a full-length film, shot in Macao. The latter picks up on the trail of the mysteries and ghosts of the former Portuguese colony, weaving together documentary and fiction in a seamless way.Coinciding with the cinema release of The Ornithologist, the latest film by João Pedro Rodrigues, the Centre Pompidou, in conjunction with the Festival d’Automne à Paris, has given them a joint invitation to present the entire body of their work and, for the first time in France, to create an installation work.
To mark the occasion, the Centre Pompidou, with support from le Fresnoy, has commissioned João Pedro Rodrigues to make a film of his choosing with which he replies to the question “Où en êtes-vous?” or ‘Where are you at?’. A book of interviews, the first work in French dedicated to this film-maker, completes this retrospective.
In the same place
Mathilde Monnier Territoires
In Territoires, Mathilde Monnier will be taking over the galleries of the Centre Pompidou during the course of a weekend in order to bring us a piece that deals with memory and circulation, "a collection of gestures from her work over the past thirty years". In doing so, the choreographer sets up the possibility of playing out memory in the present, from now onwards, or by means of anticipation.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Rétrospective
Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents the complete retrospective of his films at the Centre Pompidou. It consists of his eight feature films, thirty or so short (and rare) films, various collective works, and two feature films produced by him.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Night Particles
The Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is guest at the Festival d'Automne and Centre Pompidou. His exhibition, featuring around ten video installations, transforms the former solarium into a nocturnal space inhabited by biographical and architectural reminiscences.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul A Conversation with the Sun (VR)
A Conversation with the Sun (VR), the Thai filmmaker's second foray into the realm of performance, uses virtual reality to set up the conditions for a collective dream.
Ligia Lewis Still Not Still
In Still Not Still, choreographer Ligia Lewis pursues her exploration into the silences and shadows of history. In this piece, the performers play out a score over and over again, the burlesque dimension of which makes it all the more tragic.
Forced Entertainment Signal to Noise
Over its forty years of existence, with Tim Etchells at the helm, the company has never stopped reinventing itself. And it continues to do so. Amidst an oscillating form of virtual reality, six performers find themselves deprived of their voices and their entire beings. The whole thing goes beyond all understanding... Welcome to this new world.
Sébastien Kheroufi Par les villages
Sébastien Kheroufi discovered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the onset of his artistic career. It evokes a writer's return to his native village. Amidst the twilight setting in which one universe declines in favour of another, the voices of the “offended and humiliated” break their silence.