Notturni

The cinema of Clément Cogitore by philosopher Jacques Rancière

06.04.2022

Artists
Clément Cogitore
Jacques Rancière

As part of Clément Cogitore’s NOTTURNI exhibition at Mattatoio, Villa Medici is organizing a lecture by philosopher Jacques Rancière, followed by the screening of two films by Clément Cogitore on Wednesday April 6 and Thursday April 7, 2022.

The program

Wednesday, April 6: Lecture by Jacques Rancière and screening of Braguino by Clément Cogitore

6:30-9:00 pm
Salle Michel Piccoli, Villa Medici

➝ 6:30 pm: Lecture Fictions d’espaces by Jacques Rancière

“Contemporary fiction has often abolished the boundary that was supposed to separate it from documentary. From the latter, it essentially retains the indisputable presence of places and bodies, even if it means playing with the space that contains them, and the effects of proximity and distance that it authorizes. From the fictional tradition, she willingly abandons the knots and denouements of stories, the better to concentrate on their sensitive matrix, time and the affects linked to it. I propose to study how these two elements are articulated in Clément Cogitore’s films: time, which generates repetition but also expectation and fear; space, which brings bodies together or distances them, shows them or makes them invisible.”

Conference by Jacques Rancière

➝ 8pm: Screening of the documentary Braguino by Clément Cogitore | 2017 | 49 min | French VO, French ST

Deep in the Siberian taiga, the Braguine and Kiline clans live in autarky, separated by a fence that runs through their village. The two clans, estranged for reasons as obscure as the forest that surrounds them, hate each other and refuse to speak. A flamboyant documentary tale haunted by the myth of paradise lost.

Braguino, Clément Cogitore

Thursday, April 7: Screening of Ni le ciel ni la Terre by Clément Cogitore

6:30-8:30 pm
Salle Michel Piccoli, Villa Medici

➝ 6:30 p.m.: Screening of Ni le ciel ni la Terre by Clément Cogitore | 2015 | 1h42 min | French VO, French ST

Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his platoon are assigned to a control and surveillance mission in a remote Wakhan valley bordering Pakistan. Despite the determination of Antarès and his men, control of this supposedly calm area gradually slipped from their grasp. One night, soldiers start mysteriously disappearing from the valley.

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Neither heaven nor earth, Clément Cogitore

Clément Cogitore

Clément Cogitore born in Colmar in 1983, lives and works between Berlin and Paris.

Artist and filmmaker, he studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg and specialized at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing (France). He was appointed resident at the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis for 2012-2013, and since 2018 has been a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he runs a film, video and installation workshop.

His work is exhibited in international museums and art centers such as the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and MoMA (New York). He was awarded the Prix de la Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard pour l’art contemporain and the Prix Sciences Po pour l’art contemporain in 2016, and won the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2018.

His films have been selected for numerous international festivals (Cannes, Locarno, Telluride, Los Angeles, San Sebastian). In 2015, his first feature film Ni le ciel, Ni la terre won an award at the Cannes Film Festival – Critics’ Week, and was nominated for the César for Best First Film. To celebrate its 350th anniversary, the Opéra National de Paris commissioned him to stage Jean-Philippe Rameau’s critically acclaimed opera-ballet Les Indes galantes in its entirety.

Jacques Rancière

Jacques Rancière is Honorary Professor at the University of Paris VIII, where he taught in the Philosophy Department from 1968 to 2000. He has also taught at the European Graduate School and various American universities. His work lies at the crossroads of politics, aesthetics and literary and film studies.

His books include La Nuit des prolétaires (1981), Le Maître ignorant (1987), Le Partage du sensible (2000), La Fable cinématographique (2001), Le Destin des images (2003) and Le Spectateur émancipé (2007), Aisthesis. A scene from the aesthetic regime of art (2011) and Les Bords de la fiction (2017).