Movies: Clément Cogitore

  • 2012
    Tahrir

    Tahrir (2012)

    Tahrir

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    This work is conceived around the reuse of television footage of one of the protest demonstrations against the Mubarak regime during the second revolution in 2011, in Cairo's Tahrir square....

    Tahrir
  • 2012
    Assange Dancing

    Assange Dancing (2012)

    Assange Dancing

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    For the making of "Assange Dancing", Cogitore used an amateur video shot and published online by the DJ of a club in Reykjavik in 2011. It shows the activist and Wikileaks founder dancing on a semi-deserted dancefloor....

    Assange Dancing
  • 2014
    Élégies

    Élégies (2014)

    Élégies

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    Hundreds of small luminous screens float above a human sea : a concert audience takes pictures with their cell phones of a scene outside the frame. Like the subtitles of an absent song, or the inner voice of an invisible narrator, verses from R.M. Ri...

    Élégies
  • 2006
    Chroniques

    Chroniques (2006)

    Chroniques

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    A filmic essay/poem blending fictional images and archival footage from the Pathé and Gaumont collections from the early XXth century. Based on two figures/characters and paced by their interior monologues, Chroniques explores the mythologies of exil...

    Chroniques
  • 2011
    Bielutine

    Bielutine (2011)

    Bielutine

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    Tucked away in their Moscow apartment, Ely and Nina Bielutine jealously guard one of the most significant and mysterious Renaissance art collections in Russia. Surrounded by their crow and cats, under the watchful eye of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelange...

    Bielutine