WE [CAN] CHANGE THE WORLD
Now in its’ 8th edition, 100 Dessus Dessous is aimed at all those who believe:– that we can still have inventive, pointless and emancipating collective adventures, without being retrograde hippies,
– that appearing on a TV set at peak hour to give one’s opinion cannot be taken as a sure sign of success,
– that we can talk about theatre without quoting authors every second sentence,
– that ending your sentences with the word "motherfucker" doesn’t make you a contemporary poet,
– that the world is not just a Western world and that there are lots of people in other places too,
– that not everything can be explained or measured, which leaves a lot of play room for all types of interpretations, even the most absurd,
– that there are still some healthy utopias remaining, and not just futile angers.
In brief, an event dedicated to all of you who just want to take a little break, and let yourselves go to all sorts of things surprising, excessive, insignificant and a bit derisory. A snapshot of the current state of the world. Frédéric MazellySoirée-parcours n°1
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Monday, December 10th | Tuesday, December 11th
Gob Squad / Super Night Shot
Vincent Dupont / Incantus
Soirée-parcours n°2
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Wednesday, December 12th | Thursday, December 13th
Anne Hirth / Wait here for further instructions
Yves-Noël Genod / Hamlet
Miss Marion / Dressing Room
Soirée-parcours n°3At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Friday, December 14th | Saturday, December 15th
andcompany&Co. / little red (play) :"herstory"
Berlin / Bonanza
Soirée-parcours n°4
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Monday, December 17th | Tuesday, December 18th
Carole Perdereau / Micro Music
Ivana Müller / While We Were Holding It Together
Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido / Still difficult duet
Soirée-parcours n°5
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Wednesday, December 19th | Thursday, December 20th
Alain Michard / CouaC
Edit Kaldor / Point Blank
Clémence Coconnier / Vertige
Soirée-parcours n°6
At 07:00 pm at the Maison de la Villette | Friday, December 21th
Soirée spéciale Essais / Ecole supérieure du Centre national de danse contemporaine Angers/Direction Emmanuelle Huynh
Festival Villette 100 Dessus Dessous
http://www.100dd.fr
Etablissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette
www.villette.com
211 avenue Jean Jaurès
75019 Paris
Evennings start at pm 7:00 at La Maison de la Villette except on December 16th (off).
Free schuttles buses will take people from the starting point to the performance venues.
Accessibility : Maison de la Villette : M° Porte de Pantin (line 5) or Porte de la Villette (line 7).
Reservation : ++ 33 (0)1 40 03 75 75
Press and Trade : ++ 33 (0)1 40 03 78 49 or s.tarillon@villette.com
Box office Parc de la Villette :
Rates : 10 € "soirée-parcours" ticket
Folie Information (exit Porte de Pantin) :
every days from am 11:00 to pm 6:30
Maison de la Villette : from December 10th to 21th (except sunday 16th) from pm 6:30
on line www.villette.com
Few directors have established a reputation like Todd Haynes' in such a short time. Few directors have displayed such eclecticism, brilliance and impressive mastery in just five films. And few have been capable of moving with such virtuosity from Jean Genet's world to Douglas Sirk's or Bob Dylan's. Few directors can pride themselves on having both a remarkable talent from screenwriting and a mind-blowingly inventive sense of mise-en-scene. Few directors have the talent to make us rediscover, film after film, the immeasurable pleasure of being a cinema spectator. The unique joy of being immersed in a highly original world so rich in inspiration, poetry and intelligence, that it restores your confidence in the magic of the silver screen for a long time. Finally, few directors show as much generosity and simplicity as he does. Of course, you could forever envy Todd Haynes for being blessed with so many talents. But for precisely the same reasons, you can also be an absolute fan of his. Xavier Leherpeur journalist
I'd seen and shown some of Lech's Kowalski's early films, all so steeped in the atmosphere of NY's Lower East Side that it was startling to meet him for the first time only in Paris in 2002. We chatted, our wives chatted, and we mentioned we were heading off to Kabul to try to show movies to kids who, thanks to Taliban rule, had never seen them before. He displayed some mild interest about the idea. But when he actually showed up at Roissy a few days later we couldn't have been more surprised - things just don't happen that quickly in France.
