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Sweetgrass by Ilisa Barbash et Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Shaun le mouton by Mark Burton et Richard Starzak
Les Saisons by Artavazd Pelechian
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life by Merian Caldwell Cooper, Marguerite Harrison, et Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack

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One weekend per month, from October to April, LUMA Arles offers a series of screenings followed by discussions at the Parc des Ateliers, with free admission upon reservation.

This year, the program is further enriched with sessions specifically designed for young audiences.

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.

October 04-05: Sheep

Friday, October 4 at 7:00 p.m.

Sweetgrass by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
USA | 2009 | 1h45
Language: English, subtitled in French

Booking

Last-minute tickets will only be available at the LUMA Arles box office on the day of the screening, within the limits of available seats.

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last sheepherders to trail their flocks up into Montana's Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. Without commentary, this astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing non-fiction film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Awards:

  • 2010 - Official Selection Berlin Film Festival
  • 2010 - Nominated for International Documentary Association Award: Best Documentary Film
  • 2009 - Official Selection New York Film Festival

Saturday, October 5 at 2:00 p.m.

Shaun the Sheep by Mark Burton et Richard Starzak
United Kingdom | 2015 | 1h25 (animated film)
Language: French version (VF)

Young Audience Screening: 
For ages 5 and up

Booking

Last-minute tickets will only be available at the LUMA Arles box office on the day of the screening, within the limits of available seats.

In the English countryside, Shaun, a mischievous sheep, is fed up with the routine life he leads on the farm. He comes up with a meticulous plan to enjoy a day of rest, but things don't go as planned

Awards: 

  • 2016 - Nomination Golden Globes : best animated film
  • 2016 - Nomination Oscars : best animated film
  • 2016 - Nomination BAFTA : best animated film

Saturday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m.

Booking for 4 p.m. screenings

Last-minute tickets will only be available at the LUMA Arles box office on the day of the screening, within the limits of available seats.

The Seasons by Artavazd Pelechian
Armenia | 1972 | 29 min (black and white, silent)

 

In a lyrical staging set to the music of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, this iconic film by Pelechian captures the key moments of the daily life of Armenian shepherds, reflecting the cycle of the seasons. Haymaking and transhumance are the main leitmotifs of this cinematic poem.

Awards:

  • 1990 - Selection 40th Berlin International Film Festival
  • 2003 - Selection CPH:DOX 
  • #47 on Sight & Sound's list of the Critics’ 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life de Merian Caldwell Cooper, Marguerite Harrison, et Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack
USA, Iran | 1925 | 40 min (silent)
Language: silent with English intertitles

This documentary follows the journey of the Bakhtiari, an impoverished nomadic tribe in Iran, in their never-ending search for fresh grass for their herds. The tribe must traverse snow-capped mountain passes and hazardous terrain. All the while the question looms over them: Will they get their herds to the grazing fields before the animals die of starvation?

Awards: 

Following the screenings, a discussion will take place with Claire Dallemagne, Project manager for La Routo (GR®69) at the Maison de la Transhumance and Raphaël Devdred, PhD, historian specializing in sheepfolds, moderated by Martin Guinard, Curator at LUMA Arles, and Salma Mochtari, Research Associate at LUMA Arles.

 

 

Holder of a Master's degree in sustainable territorial planning with a specialization in tourism development, Claire Dallemagne joined the team at the Maison de la Transhumance in 2020. As the project manager for La Routo (GR®69), she contributes to structuring the agritourism offer so that the route serves as a way to discover the various heritage, cultural, and landscape dimensions related to pastoral activities, both past and present. She also develops mediation tools around transhumance, conducts educational activities related to the theme, and contributes to the design of a traveling exhibition on transhumance, which is recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

Raphaël Devred is a PhD student in history and environmental humanities at the Centre for Cultural History of Contemporary Societies at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His thesis explores the environmental history of the Rambouillet estate from the 18th to the 21st century. His research focuses on hunting, forestry, and agriculture, particularly livestock farming and pastoralism, as well as the conservation, management, and heritage preservation of nature from the Ancien Régime to the present day.

UPCOMING

NOVEMBER⎟Dogs (Companion Species)

  • Friday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m.: Heart of a Dog by Laurie Anderson (2015), United States, 1h15.
  • Saturday, November 9 at 2:00 p.m.: Young Audience Screening: Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson (2018), United States, 1h41.
  • Saturday, November 9 at 4:00 p.m.: Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff (2018), Chile / Germany, 1h18.

DECEMBER⎟Rivers

  • Friday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m.: Méandres ou la rivière inventée by Marie Lusson and Émilien de Bortoli (2023), France, 1h30.
  • Saturday, December 7 at 2:00 p.m.: Young Audience Screening: Our Hospitality by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone (1923), United States, 1h14 (silent).
  • Saturday, December 7 at 4:00 p.m.: Río rojo by Guillermo Quintero (2023), France / Colombia, 1h10.

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FEBRUARY⎟The Abyss

  • Friday, February 7 at 7:00 p.m.:The Abyss by James Cameron (1989), United States, 2h19.
  • Saturday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m.: Young Audience Screening: Kingdom of the Abyss by Xiaopeng Tian (2024), China, 1h52 (animated film).
  • Saturday, February 8 at 4:00 p.m.: Deep Rising by Matthieu Rytz (2023), United States, 1h33.

MARCH⎟Theme: Biblical Monsters / Telluric Forces

  • Friday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m.Behemoth by Zhao Liang (2015), France / China, 1h35.
  • Saturday, March 8 at 2:00 p.m.: Young Audience Screening: Sand Land by Toshihisa Yokoshima (2023), Japan, 1h46 (animated film).
  • Saturday, March 8 at 4:00 p.m.: Paradis by Alexander Abaturov (2022), France / Suisse, 1h29.

APRIL⎟Petroleum

  • Friday, April 4 at 7:00 p.m.There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson (2007), United States, 2h38.
  • Saturday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m.: La via del petrolio by Bernardo Bertolucci (1966), Italy, 2h21. 

 


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.

In 2022, during the first Lucid Intervals session, Rasha Salti and Jean-Michel Frodon talked to us about this program. Victor & Simon

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