♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Saturday 22 May 2010Review of ’Silent Child’, and interview with Director Jesper Klevenås
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 22 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
"The Myth of the American Sleepover" by David Robert Mitchell
By Vincent Bitaud (France), 22 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Blokes - Short Competition Cannes 2010: a conversation with Marialy Rivas (Chile) and Rodrigo Bellott (Bolivia)
By Mary Carmen Molina (Bolivia), 22 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
"Latin America is producing good cinema, delicate but full of content, subtly provocative". That’s the way Chilean filmmaker Marialy Rivas defines what film production in the continent is currently living. A sample of the this cinema and the new ways in which it is being done is her short film Blokes, one of the four Latin American films in Cannes Courts.
Thursday 20 May 2010Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2010 #6
By Mirona Nicola (Romania), 20 May 2010 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
No matter who you are or where you come from, the Cannes Film Festival provides an interesting experience. Your daily schedule here is hardly what you can call a routine: it’s not something that you can plan, no matter how well-organized you are. The movies you see are also surprises, good or bad. And then there are of course the people, themselves potential film characters.
As a screenwriting student I must say that over the last week and a half I must have recharged my batteries enough (…)
As a screenwriting student I must say that over the last week and a half I must have recharged my batteries enough (…)
Wednesday 19 May 2010Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2010 #5
By Andreea Dobre (Romania), 19 May 2010 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Two of this year’s Un Certain Regard films are set at the limit between offline and online life. But how much can we call it a life? For William, a troubled suburban teenager, playing the mastermind in a virtual friend circle is an escape from grey moods and scarred arms. How often could he get called a “teenage exclamation mark” in real life? Hideo Nakata’s Chatroom turns chat conversations into physical acting.
Jitze, a professional gamer, loses touch with his soul in David Verbeek’s R U (…)
Jitze, a professional gamer, loses touch with his soul in David Verbeek’s R U (…)
Tuesday 18 May 2010Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2010 #4
By Erzsébet Plájás (Romania), 18 May 2010 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
As I was walking down the Croisette on Saturday evening, a photographer stopped me for a minute and started shooting a series of flashes right into my face. Here in Cannes there is a bizarre, instinctive urge to condense each moment and face of the festival. It doesn’t matter if the subject is a celebrity or just a passer-by, if the photographer is a professional or a tourist.
Whatever the reason, cameras keep flashing persistently to such an extent that a martian would think we were (…)
Whatever the reason, cameras keep flashing persistently to such an extent that a martian would think we were (…)
Monday 17 May 2010Review of ’Bathing Micky’ and interview with Director Frida Kempff
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 17 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2010 #3
By Olivier Croughs (Belgium), 17 May 2010 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Several kinds of festivals coexist in Cannes, and the Palais is certainly not the only place to be watched over. This is actually very good news for those who come for the love of cinema without any press or professional accreditation. Far away from the glittering steps we can enjoy experimental shorts, first features and amazing documentaries. The works that are not especially well-covered by regular medias, yet usually deserve more attention than money-spinning blockbusters.
And yes, (…)
And yes, (…)
Sunday 16 May 2010Cannes catch-up: Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
By Andreea Dobre (Romania), 16 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
copyright Neon Productions
Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2010 #2
By Miruna Vasilescu (Romania), 16 May 2010 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
My choice of films is unpredictable. I went to see Mathieu Almaric’s Tournée because I have a weird crush on him and Kirsten Dunst’s Bastard because I enjoyed her impersonation of Marie Antoinette. I can’t wait for Xavier Dolan’s new feature but would also jump over the crowd to get a seat for Cristi Puiu’s Aurora. All of these are weird twists from actor to director or vice versa. Whatever the answer to the question why? - one thing is certain: Cannes is the right place for that.
Here, (…)
Here, (…)
Saturday 15 May 2010The Outsider Chronic – Dusk Five
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 15 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Trapped in the Lonely Loop
Three parties on the beach in a row made me angry. I feel stripped and hollowed. Sneaking in was the real enjoyment, but the rest was just consumption. What a strange resemblance with the love chase, where the best part is the seduction dance… The sweet reward that comes after only make you thirsty for more excitement and you desperately need to go back on the field again. Isn’t it like earning money too (I can only guess, friendo)?
So, what is a party? Booze, music (…)
Three parties on the beach in a row made me angry. I feel stripped and hollowed. Sneaking in was the real enjoyment, but the rest was just consumption. What a strange resemblance with the love chase, where the best part is the seduction dance… The sweet reward that comes after only make you thirsty for more excitement and you desperately need to go back on the field again. Isn’t it like earning money too (I can only guess, friendo)?
So, what is a party? Booze, music (…)
Editorial Nisimazine Cannes 2010 #1
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 15 May 2010 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Off with their heads!
Roll carpets, roll crowds, and… Cannes! From flashes to sunburns, admiration to jealousy, fiction to lies - let’s call it the “dream sequence” of our lifetime script. Yesterday in Cannes began a circus our jury president Tim Burton might find familiar. Indeed, his fictional adventures all made one thing clear: everything can happen. Two hundred years ago, ceramic artists were sculpting dirt in this very town. Then, conquistadors of the reverie landed on the Lumière (…)
Roll carpets, roll crowds, and… Cannes! From flashes to sunburns, admiration to jealousy, fiction to lies - let’s call it the “dream sequence” of our lifetime script. Yesterday in Cannes began a circus our jury president Tim Burton might find familiar. Indeed, his fictional adventures all made one thing clear: everything can happen. Two hundred years ago, ceramic artists were sculpting dirt in this very town. Then, conquistadors of the reverie landed on the Lumière (…)
Friday 14 May 2010The Outsider Chronic – Dusk Four
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 14 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
The Burglar Dance
Backdoor entrance is neat but has his limits. At one point, you need to show your face, to stand like a man, to play the game and do as everybody does: pretend. So here I am, surrounded by VIPs with no names, fancy suits and killer shoes. A guy is playing the saxophone standing on a blue bar, while a techno beat bumps the place. I sip a glass of white wine; I move slowly; I smile, mixed with strangers on the chewing dancefloor. Here people dance like I wash my dishes. Is (…)
Backdoor entrance is neat but has his limits. At one point, you need to show your face, to stand like a man, to play the game and do as everybody does: pretend. So here I am, surrounded by VIPs with no names, fancy suits and killer shoes. A guy is playing the saxophone standing on a blue bar, while a techno beat bumps the place. I sip a glass of white wine; I move slowly; I smile, mixed with strangers on the chewing dancefloor. Here people dance like I wash my dishes. Is (…)
Cannes as if you were there...
By Vincent Bitaud (France), 14 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
watch on youtube for HD quality.
Thursday 13 May 2010The Outsider Chronic – Dusk Three
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 13 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
The Magnetized Ark
I found a zoo, down the Croisette. One level under the main street there’s tents and terraces from where music, colors and screams pop out. In front of the show, you suddenly feel like a poor fisherman in the shadow of a palm tree. No matter how your tuxedo shines, you’re outside and they’re in. The dream starts knocking again: I need to crash into this party! But the zoo keeper is a six foot high gorilla that won’t let outsiders in, maybe because I haven’t the right fur. The (…)
I found a zoo, down the Croisette. One level under the main street there’s tents and terraces from where music, colors and screams pop out. In front of the show, you suddenly feel like a poor fisherman in the shadow of a palm tree. No matter how your tuxedo shines, you’re outside and they’re in. The dream starts knocking again: I need to crash into this party! But the zoo keeper is a six foot high gorilla that won’t let outsiders in, maybe because I haven’t the right fur. The (…)
Wednesday 12 May 2010The Outsider Chronic – Dusk Two
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 12 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Robin is in the Hood
Tonight’s mission: break into the Palace, via the red carpet. You need a glossy ticket, of curse. I’m the outsider, the head-chopped guy, the nobody. I bite and bark but I don’t have any invitation. So here I am, dogging ponies in the line, asking for a miracle. A dwarf holding a Chinese girl bust me: “If I had another invitation I would bring another girl with me!”. Thanks, pal, I’ll join the force with you for bed jumping time, but now on I need to get in. Bubbliness is (…)
Tonight’s mission: break into the Palace, via the red carpet. You need a glossy ticket, of curse. I’m the outsider, the head-chopped guy, the nobody. I bite and bark but I don’t have any invitation. So here I am, dogging ponies in the line, asking for a miracle. A dwarf holding a Chinese girl bust me: “If I had another invitation I would bring another girl with me!”. Thanks, pal, I’ll join the force with you for bed jumping time, but now on I need to get in. Bubbliness is (…)
Tuesday 11 May 2010The Outsider Chronic – Dusk One
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 11 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Cannibalism
Cannes stinks. I smell the flesh of garbage, the meat, the sweat. Flowers are dead, long live the stench. But it feels good. Smells means I breathe, I walk, I think. Tonight I roll the streets, the clouds are bugging, it feels like raining and the city lies down as a corpse. Dead icons stamped all over the place, stars threw from the sky and preserved like old memories. Shops, restaurant, entire buildings! Everything here is eaten by the ghosts of the silver screen. Tonight, (…)
Cannes stinks. I smell the flesh of garbage, the meat, the sweat. Flowers are dead, long live the stench. But it feels good. Smells means I breathe, I walk, I think. Tonight I roll the streets, the clouds are bugging, it feels like raining and the city lies down as a corpse. Dead icons stamped all over the place, stars threw from the sky and preserved like old memories. Shops, restaurant, entire buildings! Everything here is eaten by the ghosts of the silver screen. Tonight, (…)
Monday 10 May 2010Conversation with Razvan Radulescu
By Arne Kohlweyer (Germany), 10 May 2010 | Mas y Mas |Translations: [en]
Arne Kohlweyer participated in this year’s European Short Pitch with his project "A day like no other". He interviewed his tutor there, the Romanian scriptwriter Razvan Radulescu. "I wouldn’t even drink a beer with the Romanian film school teachers", gives the tone. Don’t just read but also write history, or how not to compromise your art.
Does the fact that you skipped "film school education" supported a kind of individuality in the way you write your stories? I think this is how (…)
Does the fact that you skipped "film school education" supported a kind of individuality in the way you write your stories? I think this is how (…)
Tuesday 4 May 2010I love the smell of reel in the morning
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 4 May 2010 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Real life and fiction echo each other quite closely when it comes to prediction.
You know, sometimes you anticipate a film so much that it acts like a drug. A vague recurring dream; a rumour on the web, two or three years ago; maybe a poster in the street, six months before; a too-short-too-quick teaser, several weeks past. You get closer. TVs start buzzing. Even your neighbour knows about it. It feels like an incoming meteor. A heat wave burns your wings, and the fall is good.
But when (…)
You know, sometimes you anticipate a film so much that it acts like a drug. A vague recurring dream; a rumour on the web, two or three years ago; maybe a poster in the street, six months before; a too-short-too-quick teaser, several weeks past. You get closer. TVs start buzzing. Even your neighbour knows about it. It feels like an incoming meteor. A heat wave burns your wings, and the fall is good.
But when (…)
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By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 4 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
even Cannes jury member Benicio del Toro approves… busted!
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