Souvenirs Souvenirs

Bourges, France, May 1981. Invited to the Experimental Film and Music Festival, Hernández films the city for four days. Without a documentary concern, the film starts at a fair. It seems to be inhabited; there seems to be life there.

Téo Hernandez's series of Memories... transcribes perfectly the filmmaker's vertiginous ability to capture a city from a few well-chosen places; the juxtaposition of architecture and people creates a mosaic of sensations, exalted by the syncopation of the zooms and cascading shots, clues to the "manner", the "filmmaker's paw".

Fugitive images of the northwestern city of France.

Fugitive images of old Paris neighborhoods.

The biographical evolution of Antonio Francisco Manuele, a brilliant pianist who lives in the city of Paraná isolated in a strange universe where memories are confused with reality. The days pass gray and silent. Anguish increases as doubt and ghosts invade the artist's mind. An introspective film that invites reflection.

Screen Souvenirs is a 1932 American short film. At the 5th Academy Awards, held in 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Novelty).

With each recollection, our memories become increasingly hazy until they fade away or distort. This short film explores the process of recalling memories through fragments of personal archives juxtaposed with 3D scans of my childhood home.

When is a war over? Souvenirs of War offers an essayistic tour to Bosnia, more than two decades after the last armed conflict in Europe, when many sites of sorrow have become tourist attractions. A journey along the fine line between dark travel and empathetic memory, where some enjoy playing combat games on authentic battlefields, while others still struggle to make their traumatic legacy become an opportunity.

A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.

At a turning point in his life, Thomas Lebey, a famous writer, decides to return to the location of his first love. That was in 1960 in a small coastal resort town in the south of England. Sheila was 17 and he was not yet 20.

A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation...

As a child, the filmmaker had found with his grandparents an incomplete series of postcards photographed in his family's village at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Twenty years later, he went in search of the missing cards.

During a call, he tells her the noises and memories of a sight he no longer has, but which she could translate with him. “You know, I would love for us to find a common language". Maybe in the end they'll grab each other?

This haunting animation film, rich with symbolism, is the filmmaker's plea for a peaceful world in which to raise his newborn son. Using the menacing imagery of the howling wind, the artist provokes viewers to reflect on the insanity of war. While the film is symbolic, its message is unmistakably clear: unless there is an end to conflict, we will continue to see our children swept away like leaves in the wind.

Jo, a former American G.I., settled down in Welkenraedt, a small Belgian town, as a butcher. He married Tina, a girl he had met in Belgium and who now works with him in their shop. She has given him two sons, Armand, who besides being an amateur boxing champ, is employed by his parents as a butcher, and Henri, who dreams of becoming a filmmaker and who is now busy filming a documentary about Armand. 'Souvenir of Gibraltar" is the amused chronicle of this oddball family.

Filmmaker Davina Maria and illustrator Dominique Goblet share a fascination for the beach in Ostend. Made up of photographs and illustrations, the film subtly interweaves their respective artistic practices. With a delicate and melancholic tone, Souvenirs d'une journée parfaite celebrates friendship, memory and the fleeting nature of shared moments.

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