
Présenté en salle uniquement.
Ce film fait partie du programme Carte Blanche à Concordia Parcours / Pathways.
À partir d’un unique plan de 18 secondes issu d’un film hollywoodien des années 1950 relativement méconnu, ce film classique construit un nouveau récit à partir des chorégraphies et des émotions dissimulées dans le matériel d’origine. En utilisant l’imprimante optique comme un microscope, Martin Arnold réanime les images individuelles du film original et amplifie les mouvements involontaires ainsi que les hésitations des acteurs. En insistant sur ces fissures qui apparaissent dans le monde hyper-scripté de l’écran, le cinéaste réalise une sorte d’exorcisme presque physique des codes de genre.
Ce film fait partie du programme Carte Blanche à Concordia Parcours / Pathways.
À partir d’un unique plan de 18 secondes issu d’un film hollywoodien des années 1950 relativement méconnu, ce film classique construit un nouveau récit à partir des chorégraphies et des émotions dissimulées dans le matériel d’origine. En utilisant l’imprimante optique comme un microscope, Martin Arnold réanime les images individuelles du film original et amplifie les mouvements involontaires ainsi que les hésitations des acteurs. En insistant sur ces fissures qui apparaissent dans le monde hyper-scripté de l’écran, le cinéaste réalise une sorte d’exorcisme presque physique des codes de genre.
Séance
• Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell
Vendredi 21 mars 2025, 20:00 — 21:36
Réalisation

Martin Arnold
Disponible en anglais uniquement.
Martin Arnold is a filmmaker and artist whose work has been shown at more than 180 international film festivals, including Cannes, Rotterdam, and New York. He has received 34 awards at these festivals, such as the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival (1990), the Primo Premio at the Arco Madrid’s Week of Experimental Cinema (1992, 1994) and the Main Award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1998). For his entire œuvre he was awarded Honors for Art in Cinema by the State of Austria (1994) and the Province of Lower Austria (1995).
In addition to festival screenings, his films have been shown at various cinematheques such as the Cinémathèque française in Paris, the Cinémathèque Royale in Brussels, the National Film Theatre in London, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Cinematheque of the MoMA in NYC.
Martin’s work was also included in museum exhibitions at such venues as the Witte de With Art Center in Rotterdam, the Bozar in Brussels, the Barbican Art Center in London, the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Hamburger Kunstverein, among others.
Essays on his work and in-depth interviews have appeared in several film and art magazines including Afterimage, Film Quarterly, Frieze Magazine, Cahiers du Cinema, Semiotiques and in catalogues and books such as Martin Arnold Gross Anatomies, Martin Arnold Deanimated and A Critical Cinema. Reviews of his film and installation works have been published in numerous newspapers including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Chicago Weekly Reader, L. A. Weekly, The Guardian, Le Monde, Liberation, and Die Neue Zu?rcher Zeitung.
Martin has taught at several American universities and art schools, such as the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1995), the San Francisco Art Institute (1996÷97), Bard College (2000÷01), Binghamton University (2004 — 2007), and CalArts (2008). In Europe he has held guest professorships at the Sta?delschule in Frankfurt (1999) and the FAMU in Prague (2009÷10).
Biographical notes provided by the film team and edited by FIFA.
Martin Arnold is a filmmaker and artist whose work has been shown at more than 180 international film festivals, including Cannes, Rotterdam, and New York. He has received 34 awards at these festivals, such as the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival (1990), the Primo Premio at the Arco Madrid’s Week of Experimental Cinema (1992, 1994) and the Main Award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1998). For his entire œuvre he was awarded Honors for Art in Cinema by the State of Austria (1994) and the Province of Lower Austria (1995).
In addition to festival screenings, his films have been shown at various cinematheques such as the Cinémathèque française in Paris, the Cinémathèque Royale in Brussels, the National Film Theatre in London, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Cinematheque of the MoMA in NYC.
Martin’s work was also included in museum exhibitions at such venues as the Witte de With Art Center in Rotterdam, the Bozar in Brussels, the Barbican Art Center in London, the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Hamburger Kunstverein, among others.
Essays on his work and in-depth interviews have appeared in several film and art magazines including Afterimage, Film Quarterly, Frieze Magazine, Cahiers du Cinema, Semiotiques and in catalogues and books such as Martin Arnold Gross Anatomies, Martin Arnold Deanimated and A Critical Cinema. Reviews of his film and installation works have been published in numerous newspapers including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Chicago Weekly Reader, L. A. Weekly, The Guardian, Le Monde, Liberation, and Die Neue Zu?rcher Zeitung.
Martin has taught at several American universities and art schools, such as the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1995), the San Francisco Art Institute (1996÷97), Bard College (2000÷01), Binghamton University (2004 — 2007), and CalArts (2008). In Europe he has held guest professorships at the Sta?delschule in Frankfurt (1999) and the FAMU in Prague (2009÷10).
Biographical notes provided by the film team and edited by FIFA.