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The exhibition of Nantes-born video artist Pierrick Sorin, currently
nestled in blacked out corners at Centquatre, is very much a one-man
sketch show. Practicing the method of autofilmage, Sorin often assumes
several roles simultaneously, with superimposition allowing for their
interaction. His characters are both comical and endearing, in scenarios
fictional yet relatable to real life. Though it may seem an
introspective technique, Sorin’s work looks into aspects related to...
by Marc Rickenbach
I was thinking recently about where we might see a crossover between
music videos and films. There’s the obvious: some form of a narrative,
maybe an experimental/auteur edge and some music videos even directly
allude to films. But for the most part music videos stand as their own
‘genre’ of cinematic form. Then, not so long ago, a friend of mine sent
me a video that could have been pulled directly from the young mind of Wes Craven.
Or Satan. It wa...
Nan
Goldin’s photography slide-show at the Louvre gives new life to iconic
artwork seen alongside personal photos from the artist’s private
collection.
It was completely by chance that I stumbled across Nan Goldin’s
photography slide-show installation at the Louvre, which is part of
Patrice Chéreau’s (the Louvre’s 2010 guest of honour) theme of ‘Faces
and Bodies’. Nestled in one corner of the museum entrance, a huge
display of photographs leading to a sm...
Submissions for the ÉCU 2011 Script Competition is OPEN!
ÉCU, The European Independent Film Festival, is pleased to be hosting its fourth Much More than a Script Competition.
As part of the ÉCU 2011 film festival, the script competition’s focus
is on independent screenplays, that is, scripts that aren’t aimed at
mainstream Hollywood film markets.
Writers are invited to submit their
short and feature-length scripts to the competition where they compete
for the ...
Rules
1. INTRODUCTION
This document describes the official rules of the ÉCU Film Festival
T-Shirt Design Contest. The objective of this Contest is to show off
your creativity and promote the ÉCU film festival through your design.
The winning design will be printed as the official ÉCU T-Shirt as an
exclusive item. To the extent of any inconsistencies, these rules
prevail.
2. ELIGIBILITY
The Contest is open only to individuals who are at least 18 years of age.
3. CO...
Eyebrows were raised when the Cinémathèque Française announced its
October – January exhibition ‘Brune/Blonde’, so Jen Wallace decided to
pay a visit to see if hair in Cinema really was the cultural-talking
point that the exhibition claimed it to be.
Throughout cultural history, hair is something that has always
defined an era and played an important role in more richly developing
the physical appearance of any female character. Greek tragedies,
Pre-Raphaelite ...
Have you got free time and you’re at a loss as to what to do? Are you
wondering what’s going on in Paris this month? Is there a good
exhibition? Do you want to go to the cinema but you don’t know which
film to choose? Here is a selection of exhibitions and movies that we
advise you to go see.
Vous avez du temps libre mais ne savez pas quoi en faire? Vous vous
demandez ce qu’il se passe en ce moment sur Paris? Y a-t’il une bonne
exposition en ce moment? Vous aimeriez a...
The professional film winner of last year’s Driven Creativity Competition was Adrian Westbrook with the fantastically engaging ‘Et Miaow Alors‘ – a coherent, out-of-genre ‘hybrid’ short about some of the basic difficulties inherent in independent filmmaking; created using a DSLR shooting still jpegs over 24 hours at 1 minute intervals. We recently chatted to Adrian to get an insight into his creative mind…
Were you expecting to be revealed as the pro film category wi...
If you didn’t get the chance to visit the MacVideo Expo – the UK’s leading shoot and edit event held in London last October – you will have missed our useful presentation about choosing the right external storage for your digital content creation.
Thankfully, the presentation is now online so check it out and receive top tips about important things to consider when deciding how to back-up your important work; including the most popular video codecs and associated data rate...
As we begin this New Year, the ÉCU team says goodbye to Rhiannon Hobbins who has been a dedicated festival Manager over the last four years. As Rhiannon leaves Paris and heads for new adventures in Australia, we welcome ÉCU’s new festival coordinator, Teodora Berglund. Here, Teodora introduces herself and sets out her hopes for ÉCU 2011.
Hello ÉCU enthusiasts!
I take great pleasure in wishing you all a Happy New Year! Lets hope 2011 will be a year filled with passion, ...
by Marie-Charlotte Fossard
Last Saturday, I went to an event called Table ronde «Dessiner le
musée» at the Louvre museum. The event hosted various artists like
architects, scenographers and designers who meet to talk and debate
about art.
These «carte blanche» events give artists the opportunity to share
their passion for their vocation. This Saturday it was carte blanche to
Richard Peduzzi, a scenographer, painter and designer, who has
demonstrated his passion...
by Stephanie Carrera
By chance in August 2010, I went to a short-film festival and networking event called “Films in the City,” hosted by a London group called Non-Multiplex Cinema. It was at this fun, casual night that I got the chance to view two talented French filmmakers’ directorial debut, The Red Balloon.
Despite this being their first directing effort, however, Alexis Wajsbrot and Damien Mace are no strangers to the film business. Both have worked in the visual ...
by Marc Rickenbach
El Guincho “Bombay”
Sure, I’m a little late in bringing up the new El Guincho video for “Bombay”. Maybe it’s because I didn’t really know what to say about it. Or because I’ve just been too busy watching it on repeat, searching out all the films it made me think of, then watching those. And yes, this song would probably be more appropriate in hot weather. But regardless, here we are in the new year with a brilliant video that retreats back to th...
This month we say au revoir to Rhiannon Hobbins, ÉCU’s Festival Manager for the past four years. Rhiannon was the ultimate resource for all that is ÉCU but she is moving on to her next adventure back in her home country of Australia. It’s hard to express how much she will be missed but her influence will be everlasting as the festival builds upon the fabulous foundations that she put in place.
So, without further ado Rhiannon tells us in her own words how the last four years...
Following last month’s exciting announcement of the overall winner of our Driven Creativity Competition, check out this exclusive video of the gallery exhibition of shortlisted work! The video was taken at the private launch night of the exhibition, held in London’s Brick Lane, and looks at what creativity means to the winning entrants.
We also recently had an inspiring chat with the competition’s amateur film winner – Ke Nguyen and his stop motion photography animation Hayf...
photo © Roc Herms
by Marc Rickenbach
Argentinian artist Sebastián Litmanovich is the sort of guy that
can’t seem to stay still…creatively speaking. At any given time he is
involved in several projects, putting his many talents that span
different mediums to good use. While performing or releasing his
loveable Spanish-language indie pop, he goes by the name Cineplexx under
which he has released no less than three full length albums, countless
remix EPs and just as man...
Bringing a feminine approach to the largely-masculine dominated
cinematic era of the Nouvelle Vague, Agnes Varda has been a pioneer of
French feminist cinema for over 40 years. Cléo de 5 à 7 traces 2 hours
in a woman’s life as she travels around Paris anxiously awaiting medical
test results. One of the key scenes in the film takes place at Parc
Montsouris in the 14th arrondissement, and Jen Wallace headed over there
to discover which landmarks featured in the movie can still be f...
Azhar Mahmoud is a Pakistani filmmaker who won the prize for “Best Non-European Documentary” on ÉCU’s 2010 edition with his film “Dhobi Ghaat”. On this interview, he tells us a little bit about his discovering of an innate talent for filmmaking, and more.
Where are you from?
I am from Lahore, Pakistan. FYI, Lahore is called the heart city of Pakistan and is situated near the border of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most historical cities of Pakis...
by Lindsay Macdonald
The weather’s biting, the lights are up, and the tourists are out for that time of year again under the Paris Ferris wheel, beckoning men, women, girls, boys, Santas and his not-so-magical capitalist helpers to the full kitsch glory of a readymade Winter Wonderland.
We welcome now a time of sharing and baking and Christmas card-making by the light of our tinsel-strewn trees. Families bond over decorating, hot coco, and a shared inability to escape in the cold...
Hey, we’re Elly and Katia, we’re two sixteen year old students from The Latymer School, London, doing work experience at ÉCU- The European Independent Film Festival in Paris. We’re currently both (coincidentally) studying French, Philosophy and Ethics, English Literature and History, and have one year left of Sixth Form. As we both write the film section of our school’s student magazine, working at ÉCU is a fantastic experience for us to pursue our interest in film and media a...
by Métissa Andre
Fans of the dear departed “Cinéma Images d’Ailleurs” brace yourselves, the movie theatre on rue Daubenton has recently reopened! On September 29th it was reborn as the Cinema la Clef thanks to the investment of three enthusiasts. A press officer, a director/producer and a projectionist breathed new life into the old centre of black cinema coming from Africa, the West Indies and America. Yes, La Clef’s film program has changed, however we can still see co...
ÉCU’s partner Cineuropa.org, proposes an online scriptwriting course
in English, French, Italian and Spanish. The training formula is based
on a direct and personalised contact between the participants and the
teacher. Participants will therefore be able to read the lessons and
communicate privately with the teacher at any moment. Following the
first trial lesson, which is available, free of charge, on the website,
the course is structured in eight lessons over 14 weeks. T...
NOMAD Films is excited to announce their partnership with the “Big Screen Project” in New York City.
Through this partnership, NOMAD Films will curate an exhibition of
short films directed and/or produced by independent filmmakers utilizing
innovative and explorative ways of filmmaking. The films can be
narrative or documentary, and should evoke feelings of warmth for its
shivering February audience. Projects will be accepted November 1, 2010,
through January 15, 2011. F...
We’ve recently added an interesting new case study to our website about Alexander Hölzl – creator of the popular online crime series Paradise Island (which receives more than 1,400,000 views per episode!), head of the Austria based web TV agency, Visual Kings Multimedia Solutions and co-founder of the talent-scout foundation 4motion.
To meet the demands of HD editing in a multi-raid environment, Alexander cuts his footage with a high-performance G-Technology G-SPEED Q, ...
by Yann-Yves
A few weeks ago, Russian director Alexander Sokurov came to the Forum
des Images to present a short documentary and his feature film Russian
Ark, in honor of the program dedicated to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
One of the many elements that the filmmaker spoke about in his master
class was the idea that there were no more great masters. According to
him, many people work in film and in media today, but most of them don’t
have a background or understanding o...
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About ÉCU-The European Independent Film Festival
 Hillier Scott
(ECU)
Scott Hillier, Founder and President of ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival
Scott Hillier is a director, cinematographer, and screenwriter, based in Paris, France. In the last 20 years, Hillier has gained international recognition from his strong and incredible cinematography, editing, writing, producing and directing portfolio in both the television and film industries.
Scott began his career in the television industry in Australia. In 1988, he moved to London getting a job with the BBC who then set him to Baghdad. This opportunity led him to 10 years of traveling around world for the BBC, mainly in war zones like Somalia, Bosnia, Tchetcheynia, Kashmir, and Lebanon. After a near fatal encounter with a Russian bomber in Tchechnyia, Hillier gave up his war coverage and began in a new direction.
He moved to New York City in 1998. He directed and photographed eight one-hour documentaries for National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. Based on his war knowledge and experience, Hillier wrote and directed a short film titled, “Behind the Eyes of War!" The film was awarded “Best Short Dramatic Film” at the New York Independent Film and TV Festival in 1999. From that he served as Supervising Producer and Director for the critically acclaimed CBS 42 part reality series, "The Bravest” in 2002 and wrote and directed a stage play called, "Deadman’s Mai l," which ran at Le Théâtre du Moulin de la Galette in Paris during the summer of 2004. He then became the Director of Photography on a documentary titled, “Twin Towers." This was yet another life changing experience for Hillier. The riveting documentary won an Academy Award for "Best Documentary Short Subject" in 2003. In 2004, Hillier changed continents again, spending three months in Ethiopia. He produced “Worlds Apart,” a pilot for ABC America / True Entertainment / Endemol. As you can see, Hillier was and is always in constant movement and enjoys working in a number of diverse creative areas including documentaries, music videos, commercials, feature and short films.
Scott studied film at New York University and The London Film and Television School. He also studied literary non-fiction writing at Columbia University. Hillier's regular clients include the BBC, Microsoft, ABC, PBS and National Geographic. Between filming assignments, he used to teach film, a Masters Degree course in Screenwriting at the Eicar International Film School in Paris, France and journalism at the Formation des Journalistes Français in Paris, France.
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