Sébastien Lifshitz
L’Inventaire Infini
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This event is organised by the Cinémas du Département du développement culturel du Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Festival d’Automne à Paris.
The exhibition catalogue is published by Les Éditions Xavier Barral and Les Éditions du Centre Pompidou. It features previously unseen texts by Isabelle Bonnet and Sébastien Lifshitz.
Since the end of the 1990's, Sébastien Lifshitz has been building up a cinematographic body of work that is delicate and political in equal measure. In conjunction with the cinema release of his latest film, Adolescentes, the Centre Pompidou looks back over the different aspects of his work. A major collector himself, it will also be presenting a unique exhibition of vernacular photographs.
Whether it be a smile, hands, or a look, Sébastien Lifshitz, the École du Louvre-trained film maker, has made his mark, since Les Corps ouverts, his first medium-length film, in 1998, as an extraordinary maker of portraits who is committed to the intimacy of detail. With Bambi in the film of the same name (2013), Thérèse Clerc in Les Vies de Thérèse (2016), but also the artist Valérie Mréjen in Il faut que je l’aime (1994), and the film-maker Claire Denis in Claire Denis, la vagabonde (1995), Lifshitz brings to the screen a community of a joyous, profound, resolutely outward-facing nature. In the course of his ten films to date, ranging from fiction-based feature films to documentaries in a variety of formats, he probes deep into the dimensions of gender and the plurality of our individual identities, as in 2012 with Les Invisibles, which earned him a Cesar for best documentary.
Sébastien Lifshitz’s passionate interest in amateur photography began as a child during his regular visits to flea-markets, which invariably resulted in compulsive purchases of bundles of photographs. Here, in parallel with the retrospective of his films, he presents the exhibition L’Inventaire Infini. Serving as a subjective anthology of vernacular photography, this bringing together of 400 pieces will be the occasion for Sébastien Lifshitz to reveal an intimate part of his artistic education.
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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
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition
The Thai filmmaker's second foray into performance art, A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition, presented in Paris in a new version enhanced by a third part, uses virtual reality to create 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
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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.