L'installation "No More Reality" de l'artiste Philippe Parreno sera fermée du 17 au 23 février 2025.
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Lucid Intervals: Sheep
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- Free, upon booking
With Lucid Intervals, LUMA Arles presents a series of screenings around selected themes. The selection around the theme “Sheep” questions how cinema can reshape our relationship with the living world. The films explore the sensitive and cultural bonds between humans and animals, opening up new perspectives on coexistence. The sessions, followed by conversations with researchers and filmmakers, invite us to revisit mythologies and reinvent our perspectives on the environment.
Films presented:
- Sweetgrass by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Shaun the Sheep by Mark Burton and Ricard Starzak
- Seasons by Artavazd Pelechian
- Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life by Merian Caldwell Cooper, Marguerite Harrison and Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack
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The Tower, Auditorium, Level 1
Practical Information
From 4 October 2024 to 5 October 2024
Friday, October 4 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
Sweetgrass
by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
USA | 2009 | 1h45
Language: English, subtitled in French
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last sheepherders to trail their flocks up into Montana's Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. Without commentary, this astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing non-fiction film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Awards:
- 2010 - Official Selection Berlin Film Festival
- 2010 - Nominated for International Documentary Association Award: Best Documentary Film
- 2009 - Official Selection New York Film Festival
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Saturday, October 5 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
Young Audience Screening — For ages 5 and up
Shaun the sheep
by Mark Burton et Richard Starzak
United Kingdom | 2015 | 1h25 (animated film)
Language: French version (VF)
In the English countryside, Shaun, a mischievous sheep, is fed up with the routine life he leads on the farm. He comes up with a meticulous plan to enjoy a day of rest, but things don't go as planned
Awards:
- 2016 - Nomination Golden Globes : best animated film
- 2016 - Nomination Oscars : best animated film
- 2016 - Nomination BAFTA : best animated film
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Saturday, October 5 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
The Seasons
by Artavazd Pelechian
Armenia | 1972 | 29 min (black and white, silent)
In a lyrical staging set to the music of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, this iconic film by Pelechian captures the key moments of the daily life of Armenian shepherds, reflecting the cycle of the seasons. Haymaking and transhumance are the main leitmotifs of this cinematic poem.
Awards:
- 1990 - Selection 40th Berlin International Film Festival
- 2003 - Selection CPH:DOX
- #47 on Sight & Sound's list of the Critics’ 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time
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Saturday, October 5 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
by Merian Caldwell Cooper, Marguerite Harrison and Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack
USA, Iran | 1925 | 40 min (silent)
Language: silent with English intertitles
This documentary follows the journey of the Bakhtiari, an impoverished nomadic tribe in Iran, in their never-ending search for fresh grass for their herds. The tribe must traverse snow-capped mountain passes and hazardous terrain. All the while the question looms over them: Will they get their herds to the grazing fields before the animals die of starvation?
Awards:
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1997 - Winner National Film Preservation Board: National Film Registry
Following the screenings, a discussion will take place with Claire Dallemagne, Project manager for La Routo (GR®69) at the Maison de la Transhumance and Raphaël Devdred, PhD, historian specializing in sheepfolds, moderated by Martin Guinard, Curator at LUMA Arles, and Salma Mochtari, Research Associate at LUMA Arles.
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Next sessions
Discover the themes and films of the upcoming Lucid Intervals sessions now.
November 2024 | Dogs (Companion Species)
- Friday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m
Heart of a Dog by Laurie Anderson (2015), United States, 1h15 - Saturday, November 9 at 2:00 p.m
Young Audience Screening: Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson (2018), United States, 1h41 - Saturday, November 9 at 4:00 p.m
Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff (2018), Chile / Germany, 1h18
December 2024 | Rivers
- Friday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m
Méandres ou la rivière inventée by Marie Lusson and Émilien de Bortoli (2023), France, 1h30 - Saturday, December 7 at 2:00 p.m
Young Audience Screening: Our Hospitality by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone (1923), United States, 1h14 (silent) - Saturday, December 7 at 4:00 p.m
Río rojo by Guillermo Quintero (2023), France / Colombia, 1h10
February 2025 | The Abyss
- Friday, February 7 at 7:00 p.m
The Abyss by James Cameron (1989), United States, 2h19 - Saturday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m
Young Audience Screening: Kingdom of the Abyss by Xiaopeng Tian (2024), China, 1h52 (animated film) - Saturday, February 8 at 4:00 p.m
Deep Rising by Matthieu Rytz (2023), United States, 1h33
March 2025 | Biblical Monsters / Telluric Forces
- Friday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m
Behemoth by Zhao Liang (2015), France / China, 1h35 - Saturday, March 8 at 2:00 p.m
Young Audience Screening: Sand Land by Toshihisa Yokoshima (2023), Japan, 1h46 (animated film) - Saturday, March 8 at 4:00 p.m
Paradis by Alexander Abaturov (2022), France / Suisse, 1h29
April 2025 | Petroleum
- Friday, April 4 at 7:00 p.m
There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson (2007), United States, 2h38 - Saturday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m
La via del petrolio by Bernardo Bertolucci (1966), Italy, 2h21