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by Cristina Grosan
♦ 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 !
Friday 11 June 2010Slovak Cocktail impressions
By Cristina Grosan (Romania), 11 June 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Nisimazine Cannes impressions
By Cristina Grosan (Romania), 11 June 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Nisimazine Cannes 2010 from NISI MASA on Vimeo.
by Cristina Grosan
Monday 7 June 2010Agnès Varda mesmerized by a street performer
By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece), 7 June 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Agnès Varda from Eftihia Stefanidi on Vimeo.
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.
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]
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
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 (…)
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, (…)
Tuesday 4 May 2010Nisimazine...
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 4 May 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
even Cannes jury member Benicio del Toro approves… busted!
Maximilien Van Aertryck
Tuesday 27 April 2010Critics’ Week Breakfast: the happily waiting
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), 27 April 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Chit-chat croissants and vague rumours at the Critic’s Week breakfast. The storm’s festival is coming and nothing really happens until then. Just sit and hear the thunder.
Friday 16 April 2010Robin and the opening of Cannes
By Maria Dicieanu (Romania), 16 April 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
The month of May in cinephile language means one thing and one thing only: “the festival of Cannes”. Whether all roads still lead to Rome or not, it’s a matter for the Mythbusters to investigate, but we are completely sure that in the last month of spring, film-makers and actors all over the world travel (some using mind-power only) to the exquisite resort in the South of France that hosts one of the most important film festivals of the world: Cannes.
It doesn’t really matter if you’re a (…)
It doesn’t really matter if you’re a (…)
Wednesday 7 April 2010Look Closer: the Cannes 2010 poster
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France), 7 April 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
While we are still betting on rumors about the sacred selection, this year’s poster dropped a few days ago, and it surprised many is the least we can say. Now, nobody really wants to endorse the book cover judge, but let’s blame that on journalistic duty:
Juliette Binoche is light painting the word Cannes in a cranky position, exhibiting an even stranger mimic; "did you take the picture yet Brigitte? My arm kinda hurts", is what she said moments after (rumors, rumors…).
The world of (…)
Juliette Binoche is light painting the word Cannes in a cranky position, exhibiting an even stranger mimic; "did you take the picture yet Brigitte? My arm kinda hurts", is what she said moments after (rumors, rumors…).
The world of (…)
Cannes 2010 Official Poster Released!
By Andreea Dobre (Romania), 7 April 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Let the drums roll and the hands clap, for Cinema has announced its new Goddess!
Last week, Le Festival de Cannes released its 63rd official poster. Starring in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Michael Haneke’s Code Inconnu and Caché or Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Le voyage du ballon rouge, Juliette Binoche became one of the most magnetic symbols of high-class Francophone film. It’s now time for her to personify the 7th art in a gracious and powerful image, completed with grafic design by (…)
Last week, Le Festival de Cannes released its 63rd official poster. Starring in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Michael Haneke’s Code Inconnu and Caché or Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Le voyage du ballon rouge, Juliette Binoche became one of the most magnetic symbols of high-class Francophone film. It’s now time for her to personify the 7th art in a gracious and powerful image, completed with grafic design by (…)
Tuesday 6 April 2010NISI MASA presents: the Nisimazine Cannes 2010 Team
By Maartje Alders (The Netherlands), 6 April 2010 | Cannes 2010 |Translations: [en]
Now we start to have a faint recollection there was once a life without padded coats in our Paris office and try to remember in which closet we stuffed our bathing suits last fall, we our proud to announce the selection of a new Nisimazine Team for Cannes 2010!
Here they are:
Journalists: Olivier Croughs (Belgium), Laurie Zaffarana (Belgium), Maximilien van Aertryck (Belgium), Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), Geoffrey Crété (France), Erzsébet Plájás (Romania), Andreea Dobre (Romania), Alex (…)
Here they are:
Journalists: Olivier Croughs (Belgium), Laurie Zaffarana (Belgium), Maximilien van Aertryck (Belgium), Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), Geoffrey Crété (France), Erzsébet Plájás (Romania), Andreea Dobre (Romania), Alex (…)
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