ANNE-CHARLOTTE FINEL | NUIT BLANCHE 2025 | CINEMA 7PARNASSIENS
Hors les murs 7 June 2025 - 7 June 2025Address : Cinéma les 7 Parnassiens 18 rue Delambre, Paris 14e
Les 7 Parnassiens, the famous independent cinema, will be completely taken over by Nuit Blanche, hosting a programme of video works and an exhibition from 7pm to 5am. The symbolic gesture of moving video works usually exhibited in galleries or exhibition spaces into cinemas reexamines the place where art is disseminated and expressed, and offers a new way of looking at creations.
The selection brings together visual and audio testimonies to resistance in all its forms. In the face of a prison world, they resonate as hymns to lucidity and degrowth, as calls to rethink our relationship with the environment and society. Through their poetry and visual power, these works offer food for thought on contemporary issues, while inviting audiences to enjoy a unique cinematic experience, combining art, activism and meditation. In these darkened rooms, light springs from art, illuminating the darkness and bringing it a new truth. Discover video works by Alice Brygo, Clément Cogitore, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Tao Hui, Valérie Mréjen and Emily Richardson, among others. These screenings will be complemented by an exhibition by artist Cécile Bicler, a series of six coloured pencil puzzle drawings taken from Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the scenic work of Gaëlle Usandivaras.
The selection brings together visual and audio testimonies to resistance in all its forms. In the face of a prison world, they resonate as hymns to lucidity and degrowth, as calls to rethink our relationship with the environment and society. Through their poetry and visual power, these works offer food for thought on contemporary issues, while inviting audiences to enjoy a unique cinematic experience, combining art, activism and meditation. In these darkened rooms, light springs from art, illuminating the darkness and bringing it a new truth. Discover video works by Alice Brygo, Clément Cogitore, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Tao Hui, Valérie Mréjen and Emily Richardson, among others. These screenings will be complemented by an exhibition by artist Cécile Bicler, a series of six coloured pencil puzzle drawings taken from Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the scenic work of Gaëlle Usandivaras.
Programme :
▶ Flight _ Cécile Bicler
‘Images swirled before my eyes, hundreds of images, fragments…’ Stephen King, Rage.
Untitled, silent, 23 min, 2001
Dark Rooms, sound, 4 min 39 s, 2001
Kane, sound, 17 min, 2003
Music, silent, 10 min, 2004
Screening time: 54 min 39 s
▶ Man’s colonisation of nature
Emily Richardson, Aspect, 16 min, 2004 – Work from the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection
Anne-Charlotte Finel, Jardins, 2017, from the series ‘Jardins’, music by Voiski, 6 min 18s, 2017 – Work from the Fonds d’Art Contemporain – Paris Collections
Ya-Hui Wang, Tropical work : snowman, 4 min 32 s, 2008 – Work from the Fonds d’Art Contemporain – Paris Collections
These three video works question our relationship with nature and with what constitutes us. In Aspect, Emily Richardson uses time-lapse to condense a year’s worth of observations into nine minutes. The forest appears as a living being, in perpetual transformation. This meticulous work reveals the imperceptible and underlines the vitality of an environment that we make more fragile every day. With Jardins, Anne-Charlotte Finel explores an unsuspected jungle in the basement of the metro. Nature, relegated to the shadows, reinvents itself despite concrete development. The fleeting lights of the trains reveal resilient vegetation, a battle between man and the environment. Finally, Tropical Work: Snowman by Ya-Hui Wang features a snowman in the tropical landscapes of Taiwan. Transported and shaped by the artist, he embodies the disappearance and fragility of our world. A performance that questions our role in the disappearance of living things.
Running time: 26 min 50 s
