Session as part of the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris.
As Above, So Below
Séance programmée par Nour Ouayda
✴ 8pm - As Above, So Below
From cryonics to techno-embodied ghosts, from genetic manipulation to human-bacterial alliances, the films in this program explore the relationship between the human body and technology, questioning each of their limits in an age of hyperconnectivity.
This program is inspired by the occult maxim “as above, so below”, tracing a correspondence between different scales of existence. It explores the circulation of materials and information at the level of individuals caught up in global economic flows, of bacteria transported in underground water pipes as well as genetic interactions in cellular networks.
for here am I sitting on a tin can far above the world (2024) by Gala Hernandez López, Luce RTX3090 (2023) by Julie Tremble, Resilience Overflow (2023) by Lara Tabet and Notes from Gig Magog (2022) by Riar Rizaldi explore the moving image as a site of speculation and transformation of corporeal imaginaries affected by the anxiety of technological progression and their capacity to alter and control our bodies, minds and social structures.
✴ 9:30pm - Performance by Eden Tinto Collins aka Jane Dark
JANE DARK is an image, an avatar that evolves in a virtual climate: that of icons, dreams and the afterlife. nourished by an ancestral memory - a memory whose traces history, constantly rewritten, tends to erase. The avatar appears here as an ancient technology, a tool for passage between worlds.
For this audiovisual performance combining role-playing, lyricism, science and music-fiction, his voice will be carried live by hypermedia artist Eden Tinto Collins, who will walk through the living memories of this spectral, astrocentric entity in the making.
These pieces, some of which are taken from the quantum sitcom A Pinch Of Kola, invite us to reconsider our relationship with the star system, fight for the liberation of images and subtle bodies, and negotiate through electro-pop, techno, jazz or so-called classical music… new relationships to common space.”
