Rencontres
Internationales, Paris/Berlin
Victor Sloan’s
video work Walk will be shown for the duration of
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.
In Paris, from 23 November until 2 December 2006.
© Victor Sloan
The
11th Rencontre Internationales Paris/Berlin
will provide 12 days of discovery and reflection this year with
new cinema and contemporary art
in several places, including:
- Centre George Pompidou, for a sneak preview on November 16.
- Jeu de Paume
- Cinémathèque française
- Théâtre Paris-Villette
- Cinéma l’Entrepot
- Cinéma du Monde
Several foreign cultural institutes in Paris have joined the
festival this year, creating their own programs in line with the
Rencontres Internationales themes and interests:
- Institut Cervantes
- Centre Culturel Suédois (Swedish Cultural Center)
- Institut Néerlandais (Dutch Institute)
- Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Wallonia-Brussels Center)
With 150 artists and film directors from around the world, this
upcoming edition of the festival offers a new and original
international program, including several
film premieres,
carte blanche exhibitions,
and multimedia concerts,
as well as a screening room
dedicated to viewing or re-viewing the festival’s exhibitions, of
which 95% are making their world premiere.
The goals of Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin are
to present art to a large public, to bring together and communicate
different forms of creation, and to create exchanges among artists,
directors, and main actors in the artistic and cultural spheres.
Rencontres Internationales thus endeavors to contribute to an
international reflection on contemporary image culture via an open
and ambitious artistic program that is open to everyone.
This year’s program, particularly rich and dense, was hand-picked
out of 5200 entries, as well as by invitations made to certain
artists and directors. This program is the result of an unequivocal
international art work search, which resulted in
250 works from France, Germany, and 70 other
countries, thus
bringing internationally-known artists and directors together with
younger creators whose works will presented for the first time in
Paris.
In addition to presenting works of art from around the world, the
11th Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin will
be hosting a truly intercultural forum, where numerous artists will
talk about the situation of artistic practices in their home
countries, as well as discussions on the vivacity and spread of
creation with major personalities in the art world, institution
directors, and emerging structures.
>>>>> PRESS INFORMATION
Telephone: +33 (0)1 40 18 00 20
Email: info@art-action.org
>>>>> INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC
Website:
www.art-action.org
Email: info@art-action.org
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin is
supported by: the
Ministry of Culture and Communication, DRAC Ile-de-France, CNC -
Dicréam, Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France, the City of Paris – Art
in the City – Mission cinema, Institut Cervantes, the Swedish
Cultural Center, the Wallonia-Brussels Center, the Dutch Institute,
Camoes Institute, the Canadian Cultural Center, the Netherlands
Embassy, Pro Helvetia, Ministry of flemish communauty, Finnish Fund
for Art exchange, Culture Ireland,
Haut Conseil Culturel Franco-Allemand, Fondation de Coopération
culturelle Franco-Allemande, OFAJ, and the European Culture
Foundation.
Our partner sites:
Centre Georges Pompidou, Jeu de paume, Cinémathèque française,
Théâtre Paris-Villette, Cinéma l’Entrepôt, and Cinéma du Monde.
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