Pierre Coulibeuf’s
Love Neutral
and Balkan Baroque

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 7pm

Part of Crossing the Line: FIAF Festival 2008

Due to unforeseen personal circumstances, Mr. Coulibeuf will not attend the screening on Sept 30. The films will be shown at 7pm but the post-screening Q&A has been cancelled.

Love Neutral / Amour Neutre
2005. Color. 28 min.
With Ève Bitoun, Marc-Ernest Fourneau, Chloé Aujard, Thomas Clerc

Balkan Baroque
1999. Color. 63 min.
With Marina Abramovic, Paolo Canevari, Sean Kelly, Alexander Godschalk

Memory fragments, waking dreams—eruptions of the past and future into the porous walls of the present. For experimental film director Pierre Coulibeuf, these precious moments of self-disappearance are also those of pure possibility, where the hardness of identity is exchanged for the suppleness of what we might become. It is the in-between, the place of being made and remade from unlikely collaborations of fiction, fantasy, and the real.

First impressions are essential, which is why FIAF has chosen two of Coulibeuf’s most absorbing works—a short and a feature film—as an introduction to one of France’s most rigorous cinematic thinkers. Inspired in part by writer Maurice Blanchot, Love Neutral combines film, painting, and literature into a dizzying cinematic dance at the edge of representation. Balkan Baroque stars famed artist Marina Abramovic as a woman caught at the interstices of dream and reality.

Special thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Regards Productions Pierre Coulibeuf.

In French with
English subtitles

Tinker Auditorium
55 East 59th Street

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Photo: Marina Abramovic in Balkan Baroque
©Pierre Coulibeuf