Silvestre Focus AI (Love) A Japanese avant-garde film that is a poem-made-cinema for its use of surrealist imagery, presenting a sensual look at the human body. Takahiko Iimura Japan 1963, 10'
Silvestre Focus Allers venues Among domestic animals, a month is spent in the countryside, in the south of France. A group of friends rents a house and enjoy the summer. Vivian Ostrovsky France 1984, 12'
Silvestre Focus Broadcuts A video composed of sound and visual sampling of news from around the world, made in collaboration with Painè Cuadrelli. Claudio Sinatti Italy 2000, 7'
Silvestre Focus Classic Lesbian Films: Dyketactics An exploration of the identity of the woman as a lesbian, which mixes the materiality of the film with the tangibility of the female body, creating an aesthetic of its own. Barbara Hammer USA 1974, 4'
Silvestre Focus Debris An appropriation-of-an-appropriation of videos from Instagram, YouTube, video games and public archives that (re)compose wrecked memories. Giuseppe Boccassini Italy / Germany 2017, 11'
Silvestre Focus Dialogue: A Portrait of Slavoj Žižek Žižek speaks, but his image is deconstructed until nothing, or everything, makes sense. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos Mexico 2019, 8'
Silvestre Focus Dream Work Eleven minutes of confusion, in which the viewer enters a dream world where the conscious and unconscious overlap. Is it the resting woman who sinks into sleep or the film that sinks into her? Peter Tscherkassky Austria 2001, 11'
Silvestre Focus Ecce Homo Images from Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’Amour are interspersed with images of sexual scenes between men, raising questions about subversion and taboos. Jerry Tartaglia USA 1989, 7'
Silvestre Focus Eût-Elle Été Criminelle… The end of World War II included the harrowing public punishment of women who had relationships with German soldiers during the occupation. Jean-Gabriel Périot France 2006, 9'
Silvestre Focus FragMANts In the slot machine of capitalism, it’s not things but consumption itself that is our god. Neozoon Germany 2019, 6'
Silvestre Focus Intimated Diary In the mirror, a man reveals himself, without the aesthetic armor (contact lenses, dentures) of everyday life in public. Jean-Gabriel Périot France 2000, 2'
Silvestre Focus Journalités 1 A diary over 12 years transformed into a non-objective film that reports relevant events for the author and his relationship with the artistic and literary movement Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou. Frédérique Devaux France 1995, 34'
Silvestre Focus Like A Passing Train 1 The imminent danger of the passing train vortex. But it’s okay, it’s just an image on the screens that are the windows of this apartment. Kohei Ando Japan 1978, 3'
Silvestre Focus Miles A cinematic portrait of filmmaker Miles McKane, by Yann Beauvais, both Light Cone founders. Yann Beauvais France 1983, 3'
