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Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Afghanistan 2014 As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarès and his men’s determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
Clément Cogitore
Clément Cogitore
Casts & Crew
Jérémie Renier
Swann Arlaud
Kevin Azais
Marc Robert
Finnegan Oldfield
Christophe Tek
Clément Bresson
Sâm Mirhosseini
Edouard Court
Steve Tientcheu
Hamid Reza Javdan
Aria Faghih Habibi
Seyed Jafar Mirhosseini
Dean Mirhosseini
Yashar Vah
Also Directed by Clément Cogitore
In "Parmi nous", Amin, a young illegal immigrant, has recently joined a group of other illegal immigrants camping in the forest. With every night comes the opportunity to attempt sneaking into the dockyards and hiding under a truck.
For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.
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.
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 exile and exodus. From the grain of stock footage to the pixel of digital image, this film peruses the history of Europe the way we peruse a family photo album : between personal account and fictionalization.
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, Michelangelo and Rubens, Ely and Nina live in a world of their own, a fictional realm where art and lies have gradually gotten the upper hand over reality.
October 22, 2010: the nuclear-powered submarine H.M.S Astute left the Edinburgh naval base on a personnel transfer mission.
Follow in real time the peregrinations of a small pack, prisoner and resigned, recount death like a children's tale, share the twilight between tranquility and terror. Film the fence as one would a still life.
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. Rilke’s "Duino Elegies" punctuate this enormous collective wave of energy redolent of a digital ceremony.
The sense of rituals and the manifestation of the sacred has underpinned all of Clément Cogitore's oeuvre, inspired by gatherings, communal phenomena, and the expression of beliefs of today, be they erratic or diffuse, or without a defined subject. The spread of images and the way in which they have become commonplace constitute the off-screen "narrative" of this approach: the artist confronts and responds to this with a visual intensity and a sense for storytelling that borders on the fantastic.
Les Indes Galantes (The amorous indies), is an opera-ballet created by Jean Philippe Rameau in 1735. He was inspired for one of the dance by tribal Indian dances of Louisiana performed by Metchigaema chiefs, in Paris in 1723. Clément Cogitore adapts a short part of the ballet by mobilizing a group of Krump dancers, an art form born in Los Angeles black ghetto in the 1990s. Its birth occurred in the aftermath of the beating up of Rodney King and the riots, as well as police repression it triggered. Amidst this coercive atmosphere, young dancers started to embody the violent tensions of the physical, social and political body. Both the tribal dance performed in Paris in 1723, and the rebelious Krump dancers of the 1990s shape a reenactment of Rameau’s original libretto, staging young people dancing on the verge of a volcano.