July 1971: Christian Ravel, the French pilot, rising star in the motorcycle competition, is heading to Belgium to take part in a Grand Prix. He broke down nearby Niki de Saint Phalle’s artist studio. They spend a couple of hours together mixing their universes, just the time of an enchanted interlude.
The «Café Racer» movement, born in England during the 1950s, never stopped to influence a multitude of personalities, from designers to tattoo artists, mechanics, visual artists.
Undoubtedly the most influential motorcycle movement of all time and the starting point of a culture where everyone revisits the past without denying it.
Today is a good day explains the rise of this new «democratized» motorcycle» era, the motorcycle as a way of life.
FRAPUCCINO
MARC VA PECHO
Anthony Lemaitre et son acteur fétiche reviennent au PAMA, deux ans après avoir remporté la meilleure web série avec AUTHENTIK. MARC VA PECHO explore le personnage de Marc… Savoureux, à déguster en ligne :
One day I woke up and thought: fuck, I’m in my late twenties. It felt like a hugh hangover. It was the moment I’ve realized that all my friends have started with their lifes except for me. I was still the ‘art-something-student’ that was living from the student job and hanging around in film school. They were getting married, moved in pretty apartments, I wasn’t able to afford, threw out their IKEA-furnuter and replaced it with new, fancy shit. And guess what, there are even babys involved.
There it was. The grown-up-life everybody was talking about. Except for me: I didn’t want anything to change. The only thing I was eger for, was to turn my art-student-job in something real. Getting out of filmschool and tell stories. Proofing to people that not only being a doctor is a real job. I’ve named the main character Isi, which is pronounced „Easy“ in German. But in her life nothing is easy. Kind of ironic. Kind of how it is.When I’ve found out, that the Generation in the 1920ies was called „lost generation“ I loved it. It felt like history was repeating itself – in a way. In our story, Isi is drawing a Graphic Novel to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s „The Beautiful and Damned“, which tells about a couple in the lost generation. It is amazing how the quotes of Fitzgerald fit our generation. I was wondering, how people in 2120 are going to be called. Lost Generation – Generation Y – Generation happy?
After all, 30 is the new 20 and the world was supposed to end in 2012, wasn’t it? You really can’t rely on anything these days. “Pretty far from okay” is an homage to all the „Isi-People“ in the world, stucked in their twenties and finding out, that adulthood has arrived and beeing in a place: pretty far from okay.
A man refuses the death of his wife and try to get her back in the Underworld. Un homme refuse la mort de sa femme et tente de la récupérer dans l’Hadès.
FLOWER OF LIFE
The Flower of Life is a poetic journey of a women in a bed. Flowers as a metaphor for her emotions. An ephemeral moment where unconsciousness falling down in a moving dream.
FANTASY ON SARABANDA
PROCLAMATION PUNCTUATION
“Proclamation Punctuation” is an enthralling fashion film centered on a fabulously fascinating woman reciting a short soliloquy paying homage to her love for using exclamation points in her missives. Periods are so period, where as an exclamation point livens up a sentence! There is simply nothing worse than a long dragged out sentence ending in an uninspiring dull dot! So when exclamation points are your philosophy on life, one must always keep it on the up beat!!
It’s in our name. Paris ART and Movie Awards. Why is that ? Because cinema is art, of course. But what about art ? What is the art, is it the goal, the end of the trail, or what you see walking along ? Is art what we are, or what we want to show of ourselves ?
Today, art is becoming, again, a tool we have to use to react to society, our ways of live. Art is what connects us to the others, what helps us focus on our humanity, or the spark that makes us want to destroy it all… And start again from scratch. To me, art is life.
Matt Beurois, founder of the Paris Art and Movie Awards.
SEA AND SALT by Wellington Rodrigues, GERMANY
Spain has many impressive landscapes and fascinating destinations, but one of the most amazing natural resorts are the salty pink lakes in Torrevieja. In this beautiful coastal resort you can find two beautiful salt lakes: a blue-green one called La Mata lagoon and the other, of an impressive pink colour, known as Torrevieja lagoon; both connected to the sea by canals.
In the 19th century, the salt was mainly shipped from the town by Swedish and Dutch ships. At the time, there was only limited demand from other regions of Spain, mainly Galicia and to a lesser extent, Valencia.
FACES OF THE EARTH by Merthan Kortan, TURKEY
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” Ansel Adams
I think portrait photography is the most important part of the photography. What inspires me is simply “People’s emotions, lives and situations”. Your subject is the hero of your shot and life. You capture history. You touch other lives and learn their story.My photos are taken from the some cities of Turkey.
FREEDOM, by Andrea Busco, ITALY
Love, loss and reflecting what is true.
THE CABIN, by Taylor Ann, USA
A lonely little cabin on a little grassy hill.
Just shy of being 180 years old, this little historic cabin never fails to leave you wondering. What was life like when this small home had a family within its walls? What stories could the logs tell and show if they could?
A tiny room, just one room, a little stove fireplace with an old table and two chairs on a dusty wooden floor. All within the perimeter of a small rustic fence, on the property of a local township park, it was moved from its original location across town for the enjoyment of all who visit this park.
How many stories could it tell us that have happened in it over its lifetime? We’ll never know, because even cabins have their secrets.
This is a movie-memory, narrated by a young boy about his views on life and death. It’s also a story about an unusual grandfather, who could listen to the trees breathing and believed that
“Person can’t die if someone still loves him”.
A six year-old faces an unimaginable tragedy altering his young life and taking it on a dark trajectory. From the depths of despair emerges a determined man who took control of his demons and turned his fortunes around.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Chidi Nobi is a British born filmmaker/photographer of Nigerian background. He studied at Middlesex University in London and got an MFA from Syracuse University. New York.
Chidi has lived and worked in such diverse places as France, Panama, USA, Haiti, Iraq, Brazil and Japan.
The first story in the series, (hu.mans: Kenny Rivera) was well received and screened in film festivals around the world. He is currently working on a third instalment in the Hu.man series.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
As a filmmaker I have always been drawn to stories of the human condition. What makes us who we are. Why we do what we do and what makes us unique. In a nutshell, what makes us tick!
Hu.mans is an intimate one-camera documentary series showcasing the extra-ordinary stories of the ordinary people amongst us. How behind every face is a lies an amazing story of joy, sorrow, pain, love. A story we might be lucky to be privy to if only we bother to ask and listen.
