catalogue 2007 en .pdf - Festival international du documentaire de ...

MICHEL TREGANThe proposition is a very simple one: to bring together films made by women. Is it abouttrying to find a resemblance? No. Is it about extolling the virtues of a community ofinterests. Not really. Here, not more than elsewhere, identification motives are notapparent. Under the title of this programme, you might recognise another title, the famousDestroy, says she by Marguerite Duras. If we substituted one verb for another, it is in thehope that the first will continue to resonate behind the second, and shake assurance.Here are some films therefore that do their utmost to take a dig at things. Underminingcinematography and a declaredly masculine architecture would be to speak too quickly.Let’s say rather that in each of one of these films is coming to light a form of calculatedcasual manner with regard to an order that shares so easily, for example, outside andinside. Outside and inside a house, a city, a country, a history, a thought, etc. Destroy,film, get started (or, equally, de-route), to accept to hear this triad on a tight braid, wouldwithout doubt be the most accurate equation. Le Camion (The Truck) by Margaret Durasand Hôtel Monterey by Chantal Akerman blew the starting whistle a few years ago. Morerecently, other signataries of similar misdemeanours have happily manifested themselves.Hito Steyerl, Lisl Ponger, Latifa Ekchach, Ayreen Anastase, Hala Alabdalla, Dora Garcia,Ursula Biemann. It is through their films that we hear each one say what it is to film.172