A Song of Love & Living for Living

A SONG OF LOVE & LIVING FOR LIVING
London Candid Arts Trust
Sunday 7 January 2007, at 4pm

A SONG OF LOVE is a selection of films about non-meeting, or the exchange with an invisible other where solitude leaves room for many things to happen. The films in LIVING FOR LIVING address the question of waiting for the ideal love, the relationship one dreams about and the reality lived by the other person.

Includes work by Estelle Artus, Karine Bonneval, Anne Brégeaut, Sylvain Ciavaldini, Carine Doerflinger, Sandrine Elberg, Isabelle Ferreira, Maike Freess, Alain K, Angelika Markul, David Ortsman, Arnold Pasquier, Frédéric Pompéani, Maud Querol Ferrer, Sandra Vanbremeersch.

Laurent Quénéhen is a Paris-based photographer and curator. In 2002 he approached a dozen European visual artists and proposed they participate in a program of short video films entitled LOVE VIDEO. This program was followed by ROMANCE (2003), A SONG OF LOVE (2004), ROSE AND GREEN (2005), and LIVING FOR LIVING (2006). The theme of each compilation, often inspired by an existing work of art, is invariably related to the representation of intimate feelings and relationships. The themes allow for a great variety of works united by formal characteristics such as short duration, non-narrative structure, and the importance of image over text.

Curated by Laurent Quénéhen, La Brigade des Images, Paris.

A SONG OF LOVE & LIVING FOR LIVING is presented by COGCOLLECTIVE.

Rocco K (Alain K, 2003)

A SONG OF LOVE

A SONG OF LOVE is a selection of films about meeting the other person. Yet, it would be more accurate to say that they relate stories about non-meeting rather than meeting, like in an eponymous short film by the French writer Jean Genet made in 1950 (forbidden until 1975). In this film, the viewer, together with the prison guard, spies on a prisoner caressing himself while thinking of his companion separated from him by a thick brick wall. There is an exchange between the two people, however unusual. The films in A SONG OF LOVE are also about the exchange with the invisible other. The visible part of a film on this subject can equally well reveal both what is present and what is missing. Solitude leaves room for many things to happen.

Sylvain Ciavaldini, The Life of an Artist: The Success, 2003, 3 min
Arnold Pasquier, La Notte, 2003, 4 min
Maike Freess, If I Were You, 2003, 7 min
Carine Doerflinger, Aquarium, 2002, 2 min
Karine Bonneval, I, 2004, 6 min
Anne Brégeaut, I'm O.K., 2004, 1 min
Isabelle Ferreira, The Sludge, 2004, 3 min
Angelika Markul, The O.C.D, 2004, 4 min
Estelle Artus, Domestic Underground, 2003, 8 min
Alain K, Rocco K, 2003, 1 min
Frédéric Pompéani, My Way, 2003, 4 min
Anne Brégeaut, Today - Nothing, 2004, 25 sec
Sandra Vanbremeersch, And if Tomorrow …, 2004, 3 mins

LIVING FOR LIVING

LIVING FOR LIVING (Vivre pour Vivre) is the title of a film by Claude Lelouch about the life of a couple, infidelity, then three people in a relationship, and finally solitude. Short films presented in the program address the question of waiting for the ideal love, the relationship one dreams about and the reality lived by the other person.

Angélika Markul, Régina, 2005, 3 min
Alain K, C'est plus Sûr, 2006, 2 min
Isabelle Ferreira, Parade, 2005, 2 min
Maud Querol Ferrer, Fragment d'un Discours Amoureux, 2003, 8 min
Maike Freess, When it's Most Beautiful, 1999, 4 min
Estelle Artus, Where it Clicks, 2006, 8 min
Sandrine Elberg, Chambre X, 2005, 3 min
David Ortsman, Ma Sœur Adore Mon Frère, 2005, 4 min
Carine Doerflinger, La Reine de la Nuit, 2004, 3 min
Arnold Pasquier, Le Paradis est où Je Suis, 2005, 5 min

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