Films programme

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between the performing arts and cinema, created in collaboration with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily gathering of film screenings, at the end of which the public meets and exchanges with theater artists, choreographers, filmmakers, activists, critics and journalists invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships these guests maintain between disciplines and with the world. It's a place where we can take a closer look, both large and small, at the themes brought to the stage, the territories of the guest language, and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

Screening followed by a discussion with Noé Soulier.
Moderated by Hugues Le Tanneur, journalist from Transfuge magazine.

Fragments

by Noé Soulier // France // 2021 // 17"

Fragments is a dance film that explores the relationship between movement and the camera frame. Using a device that allows the dancers to control which parts of their bodies they reveal to the camera, the film explores the fragmentary dimension of the body and its evocative power.

Hand Movie

By Yvonne Rainer // USA // 1966 // 6"

Dancer, choreographer, film-maker, theorist and poet, Yvonne Rainer has brought about a profound renewal of dance gesture through a radical approach to the everyday body. In Hand Movie, she exposes the complexity and delicacy of each finger movement and wrist rotation, between rigour and zaniness, constraint and freedom, abstraction and commitment.

Accumulation with talking and Water Motor

By Jonathan Demme, with Trisha Brown // USA // 1979 // 9"

In this solo choreographed and performed by herself, Trisha Brown dances and speaks simultaneously. She develops accumulated, repeated gestures and imaginary games, enabling the spectator to discover the essential foundations of movement in its relationship with space.