Films programme - Ce que mes yeux ont vu

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in conjunction with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily programme of film screenings after which the public can meet and talk with directors, choreographers, filmmakers, researchers and critics invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships that these speakers maintain between disciplines and the world. It's a space where we can take a closer look, from the small to the large, at the themes that are brought to life on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

Films programme - Ce que mes yeux ont vu by Patrick Corillon

Running time: 28 minutes

Just as, when we were children, certain damp patches on the ceiling could lead us into mysterious worlds, Patrick Corillon's animated films release phantasmagorical images in which each of us can indulge in our own daydreams. In this climate of disquieting strangeness, stories come to life, like distant echoes of the tales and legends that, since the dawn of time, have plunged us with delight into the unknown part of ourselves. These films recapture the spirit of the early days of cinema, when any original experiment was good for telling a story. And sometimes, the haunting music, the adventurous graphics of the intertitles and the wide eyes of the silent characters opened the doors to hallucinated worlds.

The screenings on 9 and 13 July will be followed by a meeting and signing session with Patrick Corillon

Glasgolia

By Patrick Corillon // France // 2014 // 6 minutes

Glasgolia is the search for what we sorely miss, something which perhaps doesn’t exist anywhere on earth, yet which we feel we knew a very long time ago, nbefore losing it for good.

Lapp Tale

By Patrick Corillon // France // 2017 // 5 minutes

‘It’s normal that you should be cold, you are made of snow.
Being cold is part of your nature.
If you weren’t cold, you wouldn’t be you anymore.’

The hair

By Patrick Corillon // France // 2022 // 4 minutes

In the Ardennes, it is customary to cut a lock of hair from the deceased and weave it into small figurines which are placed on a windowsill. The hair, reacting to humidity, gives life to the figurines. During family gatherings, the elders use this phenomenon to tell stories.

Russian tale

By Patrick Corillon // France // 2013 // 4 minutes

The next morning, the child woke up as bookworm. On discovering him, his mother cried out:
‘I told you so! With all those books of yours, this is what you have become. What are we going to do with you now?’
The father said nothing.

What my eyes have seen

By Patrick Corillon // France // 2018 // 4 minutes

‘Deep down inside us, memories abound.
Day and night, they come and go, and tickle us.’

The curtain of the Apocalypse

By Patrick Corillon // France // 2011 // 4 minutes

‘The wind will shake the dead branches.
The leaves will fall on the hollow stones
and break them into a thousand grains of sand.’