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8th edition - 2018

International Art Book and Film Festival

© Jean-Michel Aberola and Groupe ccc

Making of - FILAF 2018
Program

Download the program here.

Exhibitions

 

Pierre and Gilles

from June 20th to July 31st, 2018

Le Génie du Christianisme

Pierre et Gilles
Couvent des Minimes' Chapel, Perpignan.


 

This exhibition presents a series of ancient and new works that have the sacred and religion for common points. It develops a godly imagery but catch a net of the poses marked and ultra-saturated colors of Pierre and Gilles. The desecrated chapel, whose mural frescoes are hidden, waiting for restoration, finds its mystical vocation during the exhibition of the French artist duo. Far from being a provocation, the exhibition shows the religious imagery of Pierre and Gilles that is perceived through the eyes of a dozen large formats that fit perfectly into a traditional setting and reflects with perfection the sensuality already present in the paintings of the Renaissance.
 

An exhibition produced by the FILAF festival in co-production with the city of Perpignan.
Curated by Numa Hambursin.

Souvenir (Isabelle Huppert), Pierre and Gilles, 2016, photograph printed by inkjet on canvas and painted, 119 x 167 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and of Galerie Templon, Paris - Brussels.

Alexandre Léger

from June 19th to July 31st, 2018

Galerie du FILAF, Perpignan
 

Alexandre Leger produces a work on the boundary of poetry, drawing and sculpture. Fascinated by Perec and William Blake, he finds in crosswords hidden poems that he fills, and draws all around using this technic as a starting point. In the same way, his sculptures made of pencils use processes of exhaustion of the meaning of a poetic sentence, revealing its plastic value.

Guests of Honour
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Michel Auder

​French director and photographer living in New York, he was influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and expérimental cinema (Jean-Luc Godard and Andy Warhol, among other). His videos capture his life in New York and at the Chelsea Hotel and in a few other legendary places, often mounted long years after the facts.

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Bruno Monsaingeon

He plays violin, writes books and makes films. Among which, his portraits of legendary performers such as Glenn Gould, Yehudi Menuhin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, David Oistrakh, Julia Varady, Nadia Boulanger, and more recently Valeriy Sokolov, David Fray, and Piotr Anderszewsk. His works earned him an international audience.

 

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Luke Rhinehart

​He is the author of eleven books, including The Dice Man, "One of the Greatest Books of All Time". More than 30 different editions of his book have been published in the last decade in 27 languages, achieving the highest number of copies sold.

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Pere Portabella

Always involved politically against the dictatorship of Franco, he was elected senator during the first democratic election after the death of Franco, and later became a member of the Parliament of Catalonia. As a filmmaker, he has kept a relevant activity for more than four decades. At the helm of Films 59, he directed some of the most iconic films in Spanish cinema : Carlos Saura's Los golfos (The Hooligans, 1959), Marco Ferreri's El cochecito (The Wheelchair, 1960) and Luis Buñuel's Viridiana (1960). As a director, he creates his own creations by bringing together the legacy of avant-garde culture and his quest to transcend the boundaries of languages.

Alain Jaubert

Before making the famous series on art "Palettes" (50 films produced and broadcast between 1989 and 2003), Alain Jaubert was a journalist at La Recherche and Nouvel Observateur, he then became chronicler of classical music at Libération.

Author of several essays and various translations, he published his first novel Val Paradis in 2004, followed by a second Une nuit à Pompéi in 2008.

Alain Jaubert has produced numerous documentaries for the INA (Auschwitz, l'album de la mémoire, 1985), Arte (Gustave Caillebotte ou les aventures du regard 1994,Giacomo Casanova 1998, Nietzsche, une journée philosophique 2001) and France 3 ( Series « Un siècle d’écrivains » : Henri Michaux, 1995). From 1990 to 1993 he produced the magazine Les Arts and many programs for "Oceanique" on France 3. At the same time, he taught at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs from 1988 to 1993 : colour theories for beginners and semiology of the image for the photo department.

FILAF 2018 Book Jury
FILAF 2018 Film Jury
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Bernard Marcadé
Book's Jury President

Art critic and independant expository Commissioner, he is the author of several books including Féminin/Masculin. Le sexe de l’art (1995), Marcel Duchamp. La vie à crédit (2007), 53 oeuvres qui (m’) ébranlèrent le monde. Une lecture intempestive de l’art du XXe siècle (2010) and Magritte (2016). He is currently preparing a biography of Francis Picabia. Among his numerous exhibitions: Je ne crois pas aux fantômes, mais j’en ai peur, La Force de l’art (Grand Palais, Paris, 2006), On dirait le sud, cartographies sentimentales et documentaires (C.R.A.C. Sète, 2007) and 43795 M2 - Fabrice Hyber (C.R.A.C, Sète, 2015). He taught art history and esthetism at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy from 1985 to 2014.

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Cristian Mungiu
Film's Jury President

Romanian film director, his first movie Occident/ West has been awarded in 2002 at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs of Cannes. In 2007, his second film 4 mois, 3 semaines et 2 jours received the Palme d’Or at Cannes' Festival, and also prizes of Best Movie and Best Director from the European Film Academy. Back at Cannes in 2009 as a scenarist, producer, and co-director, he presented the episodic and collective film Tales from the Golden Age. Later, in 2012, he introduced as a scenarist and director Beyond the Hills. which received the prizes of Best Scenario and Best Actress. Baccalauréat is his fifth film shown in Cannes, awarded by the prize of Best Director in 2016.

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Eric Mangion
Juror

​He is the director of the Art Center of the Villa Arson since 2006. He has been the director of the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur from 1993 to 2005 in which he focused a part of his collection on evolutive works. Commissioner or co-commissaire of numerous exhibitions, including Self in Material Conscience (Fondation Sandretto, Turino, 2002), Artur Barrio (University of Philadelphia, 2006). He was also the artistic director of the toulousian festival Printemps de Septembre in 2010, artistic advisor of the Festival Live at Vancouver in 2011 and presided the festival Actoral in Marseille since June 2017. He prepared for 2019 a demonstration about sound poetry at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and an exhibition with Pauline Curnier Jardin and Marie Losier at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris). He is also the co-founder of the la Switch on Paper platform.

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Valérie Mréjen
Juror

Former art school student, she is from the beginning interested by the various ways of expression in order to explore better language possibilities. She started by editing a few artists' books before shooting her first video clip. Her works were the object of many exhibitions in France and abroad, especially at the Jeu de Paume in 2008. She realized several documentary, short films (Pork and Milk 2004, Valvert 2008) and a fictional feature film - En ville - co-realized with Bertrand Schefer and selected at the  Quinzaine des réalisateurs at Cannes in 2011. She published Mon grand-père (1999), L’Agrume (2001), Eau sauvage (2004) at Allia Editions, and Forêt noire (2012), Troisième personne (2017) at P.O.L.

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Léa Bismuth
Juror

She is a writer, art critic (especially in Artpress since 2006) and independent exhibition commissioner. Her pratique as exhibition commissioner, as a writing gesture, mixes literature and contemporary art, opening a field of experimentation. It is in this perspective that we should understand her curatorial research program that she initiated at Labanque de Béthune with thirty artists : La Traversée des Inquiétudes (according to Georges Bataille, 2016-2019). This research was accompanied by the publication of three complete supplements  of Artpress dedicated to each exhibition and which will give rise to a book of collective artists under her direction (Filigranes editions, 2019). We can also quote her work for the Nouvelles Vagues of the Palais de Tokyo (Bruissements, 2013), Les Rencontres d’Arles 2017 and 2018, Les Tanneries d’Amilly (L’Éternité par les Astres, 2017) or Le BAL (Clément Cogitore/ Braguino ou la communauté impossible, 2017).

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Valérie Jacquet
Juror

Responsible of the Galerie du Jour agnes b. and its bookshop, Virginie Jacquet has always evolved in the world of contemporary art and art books. She previously led the specialized bookshop OMR Ediciones in Mexico city, and worked with the European house of photography, the FIAC, Paris Photo as well as different french and internationales galleries : Laurent Godin Gallery, Semiose Gallery, Magnin-A, Paula Cooper, Yossi Milo....

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Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Juror

Before becoming an artist, he was first known in the performance world world in which he became a historian, with his book l'Acte pour l'art (Publishers Evidant, 1988; new publishing Al Dante, 2004). He since published a dozen of essays, the last of which being Twist tropiques (éd. Loevenbruck and Yellow Now, 2013). Since 2003, he regularly exposes at the Loevenbruck Gallery which represents him in Paris. He also, among others, participated at the exhibitions Notre Histoire (Palais de Tokyo, 2006), La Force de l’art 02 (Grand Palais, 2009), Une forme pour toute action (Printemps de septembre, 2010), Les Maîtres du désordre (Musée du quai Branly, 2012), Le Surréalisme et l’objet (MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2013). A retrospective at the Villa Tamaris, Esprit es-tu là ?, has been dedicated to him in 2016, accompanied by a monographic catalog (Dilecta and Loevenbruck publishers).

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Eduard Escoffet
Juror

This poet worked on the different facets of poetry (visual and written poetry, installations, oral poetry, poetic action), but focused his mind on sound poetry and poetry reading. While being involved in the Barcelonian countercultural scene, his works are also played in poetry festivals and events everywhere in Europe, China, United States, South Africa, and in numerous Latin American countries.

He is the co-founder of the Projects Poètics Sense Títol platform. From 2010 to 2012, he has been co-director of Barcelona Poesia, an international festival of poetry in Barcelona. He published the poetry books Gaire (2012), El terra i el cel (2013) et Menys i tot (LaBreu, 2017), and the artist book Estrampsavec Evru (2011).

He also realized two albums in collaboration with electronic music bands Pols (2012) and Escala (2015). He also produced for the MACBA (Barcelona 2005), with Eugeni Bonet, the film series Coming Soon on this Screen: Letterist Cinema, between Discrepancy et Revolt

Books awarded 

GOLDEN FILAF

MODERN ART

 

Philip Guston : Nixon Drawings. 

1971 & 1975

by Musa Mayer and Debra Bricker Balken

Hauser & Wirth, Switzerland, 2017


SILVER FILAF

THEORY OF ART

Architecture of Counterrevolution :

The French Army in Northern Algeria

by Samia Henni

gta Verlag, Switzerland, 2017


 

 

 

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

Guy de Cointet - Théâtre complet 
by Hugues Decointet, François Piron,

Marilou Thiébault
Paraguay Press, France, 2017


 

 

PERPIGNAN LIBRARY PRIZE
 

5 maisons

by Dominique Ehrhard

Les grandes personnes, France, 2017


 

ART CULINARY

Kalamata : La cuisine,

la famille et la Grèce
by Martin Bruno and Julia Sammut,

Editions Keribus, 2017
 

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FINE ARTS

Johan Maelwael. Nijmegen

- Paris - Dijon. Art around 1400

by Pieter Roelofs

Nai010, Netherlands, 2017

 

ARCHITECTURE

Handbook of tyranny

by Theo Deutinger

Lars Muller, Switzerland, 2018


 

MUSIC

Ni noires, ni blanches : 

Histoire des musiques créoles

by Bertrand Dicale

éditions La Rue Musicale, France, 2017


CONTEMPORARY ART

Le monde de Topor

by Laurence Engel, Frédéric Pajak et alli.

Les cahiers dessinés, France, 2017

 

PRIMITIVE ARTS

Maternité. Mères et enfants 

dans les arts d’Afrique

by Herbert M. Cole

Fonds Mercator, Belgique, 2017

 

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Sally Mann,

a thousand crossings

by Sarah Kennel,

Abrams, USA, 2018

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Films awarded during the FILAF festival 2018
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GOLDEN

Moriyama-San

by Louise Lemoine and Ila Bêka, 2017, 107' (FR). Prod. : Bêka & Partners

First screening in France



SILVER FILAF

Beuys

by Andres Veil, 2017, 107’ (DE). Prod. : Zero one film in co-production, Terz Filmproduktion, SWR/ARTE, WDR



SPECIA JURY PRIZE

Une poétique de l'habiter

by Caroline Alder and Damien Faure, 2018, 60' (FR). Prod. : Caroline Alder et Damien Faure

First worldwide screening

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