Pauline Curnier Jardin

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.

Pauline Curnier Jardin draws on carnivalesque rites and reversals to tell complex stories, stories of the body and desire that confuse gender and social norms. The artist examines European mythologies and sifts them through her fantasies to produce works that border on the sublime and the grotesque.

For the festival, she presents two of her films, made 10 years apart: Grotta Profunda, les humeurs du gouffre, produced for le Printemps de septembre in 2011 and Fat to Ashes produced in 2021 for the Preis der Nationalgalerie and presented at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin. While both works share a truculent and visceral universe, the most recent one pushes the boundaries of the dictable a little further. The rituals become more violent, the excesses more blatant and the songs turn into screams.

FILMS ON A LOOP

— Fat To Ashes, 2021, 20 min 55 s 

— Grotta Profunda, les humerus du gouffre, 2011, 30 min 

RENDEZVOUS

On September 18, from 8pm to 11pm, Pauline Curnier Jardin invites friends and collaborators for a night of concerts, from sweet folk to unleashed beats.

— Midget! – concert

— Vincent Denieul – concerts et DJ set 

— Chris Imler – concert