Let Us Reflect Film Festival

During the festival, isdaT is transformed into an ephemeral screening room and hosts films in loop throughout the day. Four cartes blanches follow one another: an artist, two festivals and one curator share their current concerns or eternal obsessions. Each of these white cards extends outside the dark room with concerts, meetings or open-air screenings.

Le Printemps de septembre welcomes the Let Us Reflect Film Festival for its third edition. Dedicated to the exploration of the links between video and cinema and organised by La Chapelle Saint-Jacques Centre d'art contemporain (Saint-Gaudens), it invites the Filipino artist Shireen Seno, whose work was shown during its first edition.

FILMS IN LOOP 

— A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off, 2018, 18 min 

At the institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse, is presented her new video A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off. This ongoing project was inspired by the passing of the artist’s father in the USA, and projects chimeras of migration interspersed with images of birds and her daughter.

— To Pick A Flower, 2021, 17 min 

For the duration of Let Us Reflect Film Festival, To Pick a Flower is screened at La Chapelle Saint-Jacques Centre d'art contemporain. Taking as its starting point an archival photograph of a bride posing next to a plant, this video essay explores the intertwined roots and growth of photography and capitalism during the American colonial era in the Philippines (1898-1946).

THE RENDEZVOUS

On Saturday October 2 at 8:30 p.m., Nervous Translation will also be screened at the Chappelle Saint Jacques center for contemporary art. More information here.

In partnership with La Chapelle Saint-Jacques centre d’art contemporain and isdaT – institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse