Couv Cat 2009 - Eurodoc

2004 Chapter
CASABLANCA (SOUVENIR)
LENGTH : 51 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2002-2003
DIRECTOR : BERNARD MONSIGNY
PRODUCER : FRÉDÉRIC FERAUD
COMPANY : LES PRODUCTIONS DE L’OEIL SAUVAGE (FRANCE)
Jean-Michel, a blind man, returns to his native Morocco with
powerful memories of his childhood days. He records the sounds
encountered along the way in order to make a radio broadcast on
his return. His son Jean-Marc, who is ten and visually unimpaired,
acts as his guide. He is eager to discover the places that gave his
blind father his first impressions of the world. Father and son
spend several days in Casablanca with Rachid, an old school-mate
of Jean-Michel's, at an institute for the young blind. Rachid shows
us how a blind man introduces another blind man to his culture
and a big Moroccan city. They will be our escorts between the
world of the sighted and the world of the blind on a journey
through different fields of perception. How a blind man teach us
to see ?
Partners :
France 3
2M (Maroc)
YLE TEEMA (Pre-sale)
RTBF (Pre-sale)
FILMS
CINÉMA, DALI
LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC NETWORK
DIRECTORS : JOSEP ROVIRA
PRODUCER : VICTOR CARRERA
COMPANIES : TELEVISIO DE CATALUNYA (SPAIN)
ARTICLE Z (FRANCE)
Salvador Dalí was a celebrated surrealist painter with an excessive
creative ambition in regards to what was usual in the mid-20th
Century. Among many other artistic disciplines, he did various and
known contributions to the Cinema with capital letter, but he also
invented a new form of cinema. He discovered that he could
realise his dream by showing himself in front of the camera. It's
been a surrealist cinema, made out of short scenes, with a sole
actor and director of scene, the famous Salvador Dalí acting out
all sorts of eccentric roles. Cinema, Dalí brings about a completely
new perspective on Salvador Dalí. Its investigation work has
brought back into light and put back in order more than forty
hours of images of archives from around the world. As new
images appeared, the documentation team discovered links
between them that threw a new light on Dalí's cinematographic
ideas. The end result is a film approved by the Gala and Salvador
Dali Foundation, the heir of the painter. If up until now we only
knew about Dalí's work with the great film-directors Buñuel,
Disney or Hitchcock, historians will now have to open a new
chapter and a new genre dedicated to the cinema of Dalí.
Partners :
France 5
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
Festivals :
Finalist of International Emmy Awards, New York 2004 as best Arts
Programming
Finalist on the URTI Prix, París 2004
Malaga Film Festival, 2004
Fipa in Biarritz 2004.
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