Cinéphémère 2019
This year, FIAC and the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard are presenting the tenth edition of Cinéphémère, a programme of short films by artists broadcast continuously during FIAC week, from Wednesday 17 October to Sunday 21 October 2019.
For the tenth edition of Cinéphémère, Thomas Boutoux presents a cycle of artists’ films, some of which are recent and others historical, which trace a history of contemporary artists’ awareness of environmental problems, the evolution of climate conditions, and the transformation and profound alteration of ecosystems. The programme intends to showcase ways of seeing, taking stock, constructing, and acting inherent to artistic practices, with respect to major phenomena of our age and their past, present, and future consequences.
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« While the general awareness of the ecological crisis has never been as high as it is today, environmentalism in art is by no means a new idea. The assumption that it has become a fashionable theme lately, or even an opportunistic position among artists, not only equates to playing into the hand of climate scepticism, but it also prevents any serious consideration of the various artistic practices, languages, and experiences that for decades have observed, thought, and inhabited the ongoing environmental transformations and disasters.
The programme of international short artist’s films at the Cinéphémère this year thus seeks, on the contrary, to compose and investigate a history of the artistic sensitivity to and awareness of environmental issues over the course of the past three decades.
It cannot claim to be exhaustive, given the abundance in fact of productions by contemporary artists and filmmakers addressing the upheavals of the ecological dynamics of our age. It chose to focus instead mainly on artists who have made the question of affects central to their work – these ambivalent affects described by writer and philosopher Baptiste Morizot, which “would lend a form to the distress of inhabiting that which is damaged, but that would also be capable of orienting the passions arising from this observation – steering them towards life, thinking, and less untenable modes of existence.”
The film medium is unquestionably the preferred medium for an artistic approach to environmental issues; given the prominence and role it gives to landscapes and “climates”, and to the living world, its actors, human and non-human, and finally, to narrative forms. It is also through the conditions of production inherent to artist’s films, deliberately aside from the norms of the film industry, their specific modes of distribution, dissemination, and installation that many contemporary artists enact their long environmental commitment.”
Thomas Boutoux
