Lucid Intervals
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The Towrope by William Vega Donneys
Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin
The Tower
Auditorium, Level 1
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Each last weekend of the month from October to March, LUMA Arles organizes a series of screenings followed by discussions at the Parc des Ateliers.
These films will explore the relationships between humans and non-humans, interspecies relations, mythologies, and the natural world. Focusing on a different theme each month, these sessions are part of a proposal that also includes exchanges with speakers, researchers, filmmakers, and the audience, on how these films contribute to changing our perceptions.
March's theme: Swamp
Friday, March 29 at 7:00 p.m.
The Towrope by William Vega Donneys
Colombia, France | 2012 | 1h28
Original soundtrack: Spanish, French / Subtitles: French
Alicia feels lost. The memory of war clings to her mind in a terrifying rumble. Thrown off her land by armed conflict, she tries to build a new life at “La Sirga”, a rundown boarding house on the shore of a large lagoon high up in the Andes mountain range.
2012 • Cannes Film Festival • Directors' Fortnight
Saturday, March 30 at 4:00 p.m.
Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin
USA | 2012 | 1h32
Original soundtrack: English / Subtitles: French
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl, Hushpuppy, exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural order is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
A discussion will follow the screening with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, artists, educators, researchers, and co-founders of the Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange amongst diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries.
Did the people who financed and created it know how magical and piercingly beautiful it would be? They couldn't have known at the outset. Benh Zeitlin's debut feature evokes life in a surpassingly strange corner of Louisiana through the ecstatic spirit of a 6-year-old black girl named Hushpuppy. There's no trace of calculation, only artistic ambitions and hopes that have come to fruition in the year's finest film thus far.
Wall Street Journal
THE AFTERS LUCIDS
Lucides Afters offer a chance to prolong conversations between the attendees after the Lucid Intervals screenings.
The Drum Café team will be delighted present original creations specially made for the occasion. Chef Laurent, and Arnaud, head bartender, both have come up with a variety of preparations, some of which are linked to the screenings' theme.
A 20%-discount will be available for students.
Dates: Saturday February 24 and Saturday March 30
Times: 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
More info
The series of screenings has been curated by Rasha Salti, Independent Curator, Jean-Michel Frodon, Film Critic with Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Director of Exhibitions and Programs, LUMA Arles, Martin Guinard, Curator, LUMA Arles and Salma Mochtari, researcher associate, LUMA Arles.
Biographies:
Rasha Salti is a researcher, writer and curator of art and film based in Beirut and Berlin. At present, she is the commissioning editor for the experimental documentary program “La Lucarne” for Arte France.
Jean-Michel Frodon is a film critic, journalist and teacher at Sciences Po. He is the author of thirty books on cinema, and was notably head of the Cinema section at Le Monde and director of Cahiers du Cinéma.