AV Peter

  Trophée de Paris 15th 16th June 2007

So, as I know M Coles is waiting for a long message about my impressions during this large week end dedicated to audiovisual slideshows at the Trophée de Paris, what should I say?

I came  as a  friend supporter to Stéphane Bidouze work, and I really enjoyed being there. First of all, I do think that the kindness, sense of humour, and very welcoming attitude of the organizers has to be underlined. They really made their best to make everybody feel both comfortable and moved by what was shown….

There were so many good “diaporamas” that  I really felt myself  many times like  deeply diving into movies, forgetting that it was not film making, as the stories were genuine screenplays, as the sound was fitting perfectly, as I was strongly  carried away.

I thought it might be slightly boring, as I’m not any of a “diaporamist”, and It was not boring at all.

Friday evening and Saturday until 20pm, there were kind of a discussion after each projection and people were all very passionate, very accurate in their questioning, very demanding too…

I found that interesting, even if technical arguments wouldn’t convince me about the opportunity of using “proshow” or PTE, or even “la lanterne magique”…..I somehow listened carefully every word refering to the  screenplay,  or music, sound,  diction, emotion, depth of feelings, sensitiveness, message, etc ……

During that week end I was more and more persuaded that audiovisual slideshow making is a real tough work and a masterpiece of art.
Let me tell you M Coles, that I loved your highly poetical and imaginative story about this Bruno the son of a german officer who shares the destiny of a jewish child through the mediation of “striped pyjamas”…..

Some say in the audience that’s it’s hard to believe, but who cares?

I liked very much the  “essai sur ma haine”, found the diction extremely moving, describing perfectly well different complex feelings one can go through, from  shock to anger, hate, leading to the keeping down and to the  acceptance of “what happened” for not being ourselves on the revengeful side of life.

I thought “l’oubli”, Nementcha,  Collins were beautiful, too.
I forgot plenty of them, the humourous “chariots of fire” (as clever as a Peter Greenway demonstrative movie, mixed with  a Terry Gillian one)  and others, and ask you to apology for that “distraction” of mine.
Be sure that I enjoyed being there…..
I wish you plenty of success with your AV slideshows, the one about “opera hip hop” and others
Yours faithfully

Sophie Bardinet

The Following 14 Sequences were placed and shown during the Public Performance during the evening of 16th June 2007

1         Sirja Lamia by Johan Werbrouck (Belgique)

2         La passion de Manon by Denis Gelin (France)

3         Different by Denys Quelever (France)

4         L’Oubli by Christian Hendrickx (Belgique)

5         Derrière la barrière by Philippe de Lachèze-Murel  (France)

6         Ding Ding! by Cécile Friset (France)

7         Urban Art  by Jean-Claude Desmonts et José Amezcua (France)

8         Essai sur ma haine by Jacques Van De Weerdt (Belgique)

9         Striped Pyjamas  by Ron Davies& Peters Coles Grande Bretagne)

10       Alma by Robert Albright (Grande Bretagne)

11       J’adore t’ecrire by Stephane Bidouze (France)

12       Une journée à Roquebillière by Jean-Marie Lafont-Delpit (France)

13       Chariots of fire by Ian Bateman (Grande Bretagne)                                                          

14       Terre d’accueil by Brigitte Richir (France)

FULL RESULTS ON 

http://site.voila.fr/tropheedeparis/index.html

 DIAPORAMATOUR results

The Full results for the four events and the Overall results are available on:

http://www.diaporamatour.com/

The Global Results for the top few are given below:

1 La Passion de Manon by Denys Gelin (Fr)

2 L’attaché-case by Michele et Michel Paret (Fr)

3 La Legend  de Magnus Olafsson by Jean-Pierre Simon (Fr)

4 Lacheté by Jean Zuchet (Fr)

5 Striped Pyjamas by Peter Coles & Ron Davies (UK)

6 Le saignement de la pierre by Jean-Marie Béziat

7= JFK by Coretin Le Gall (Fr)

7= Memoria by Ricardo Zarate (Fr)

7= Maria Fil Noir

Different

Pictures to EXE version 5

is now downloadable from

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FANTA DIA

I have just returned from an excellent FANTADIA event held in Asolo, just north of

Venice in the foothills of The Italian Dolomites. This is the place where Robert Browning used to hide away and meet up with several of his poet friends. It’s a most beautiful venue; we stayed in a hostel run by nuns who were most kind and helpful. The events took place in a theatre and most evening there was an audience of just over one hundred. The local folk had become used to the first-class entertainment provided on these occasions and so quite a few joined in with the authors and producers, most of which were professional workers who had travelled from countries all over the world.One regular contributor to these occasions, Mal Padgett decided to get married here this year and so the Friday was devoted to his wedding to Gabbie during the day from midday followed by a reception, then a Show of his work during the evening, followed by more food, ending up back at the hostel about 3-o-clock on Saturday morning! One or two ‘amateur’ works were shown: my own “Flutterings” was in the programme. However, even though I had sent a couple of disks with it on many moons beforehand, they did not seem to be able to find one of them! No problem, we just substituted it with “Five Beers” which Willem van den Berg happened to have with him on his laptop. This Sequence was actually made during my visit to Asolo two years previously, so it seemed appropriate that this was the substitute rather than nay of the other Sequences I had on a memory stick in my own pocket! Other highlights for me included a homage to Asolo made by Todd and Marcia Gipstein from

USA, made from images gathered during two previous stays in this area for Fantadia events. “Lasciami Essere” was an excellent report on Alzheimers patients, locally made by Moria de Zen who lives in Asolo. There were two works by Johan Werbrouck, “Leda and The Swan” and “The Vanishing Race” and “The Bridge is Safe” by Henk Tulp and Albert Slack and “Different” by Denys Quélever (winner of the Fantadia event in Chelles, Paris, earlier this year) but these were shown before I arrived on the Thursday.Maybe the most impressive for me was a Sequence by Claudio Tuti, “In Fruili the land shook” constructed from archive images of an major earthquake in 1976. This was a very sensitive production.Bruce Hornstein (

USA) showed us his “The Power of an Idea” which was produced for Areva, a French owned nuclear power services company. It explores the power that is inherent in man’s imagination. It traces the development of big solutions that have started with simple ideas. In short, it invites us to consider the power that resides in all of us to create. This is a superb professional Sequence; I had seen it in

Paris and I was looking forward to witnessing it again. I was not disappointed. It did somehow remind me of one of the first Sequences I saw in Manchester, way back when I had just begun on this 3-decade AV trail; the Sequence of that particular day was “The Mind of Man” by Adrian Battersby; I can still quote from it: “Whatever the Mind of Man can conceive of and believe in, it can achieve!”

ROMANIAN FESTIVAL - ENTRIES BY - 15th August 2007

Details on  www.uafbucovina.org  

  

The IAC Challenge

Master of Audio-Visual Arts

The Master Movie-Maker Fellowsip of the IAC - FACI (M) is awarded for outstanding attainment in Film-making and audio-visual arts. IAC Council  has recently decided to implement a new sytem of application for this Award.

The aim is partly to encourage more A-V workers to apply for the distinction.

To qualify, applicants must have accumulated at least five points as follows:

Two AV Sequences which  have each won two FIAP-Recognised International Awards  will be worth one point provided that one of these International Awards was via the Geoffrey Round Competition.

In addition at least one of these Sequences must have been overall winner of the Geoffrey Round AV Competition.

Applicanst must, of course, have been a full member of the IAC for at least five years.

Applications need to be ratified by Council and to cover administrative costs there is a £25 application fee.

Each AV Sequence must have been made in the name of the applicant in the role of Director. Club entries will not count. Each Sequence may be used by one applicant only.

Any believing they may qualify, please contact David Newman, 78 The Common Quarndon Derbyshire DE22 5JY e-mail david.newman@boltblue.com

Winners of the Geoffrey Round AV Competition (a necessary qualifying condition) include:

Richard Brown with “The Story of a Hymn”, 1994;

Sid Pearce with “Oblivion”, 1995;

Norman Veale with “Monsieur Maurice”, 1996;

Malcolm Imhoff with “Carnival in Venice”, 1997;

Harry Duckmanton with “Are You Arkin” 1998;

Jean & Reg Royle with “Not I Surely” 2000;

Ron Davies with “Idwal Bach” 2001;

Gabriele Pinardi with “Il Ladro di Recordi”, 2002;

Peter Coles with “City of Flowers” 2003;

Johan Werbrouck and Freddy Adam with “The Vanishing Race” 2004;

Ron Davies with “Hedd Wyn”, 2005;

Johan Werbrouck with “Room 17″ 2006;

Jacques van de Weerdt with “Essai sur Ma Haine” 2007.

All these potential FACI (M) Distiction holders need now is another nine International Awardwinning Sequences four of which need to have gained Awards in the Geoffrey Round event! That’s a tall order !!!!!

Master of Audio-Visual Arts

The Master Movie-Maker Fellowsip of the IAC - FACI (M) is awarded for outstanding attainment in Film-making and audio-visual arts. IAC Council  has recently decided to implementa new sytem of application for this Award. The aim is partly to encourage more A-V workers to apply for the distinction.

To qualify, applicants must have accumulated at least five points as follows:

Two AV Sequences which  have each won two FIAP-Recognised International Awards  will be worth one point provided that one of the International Awards was via the Geoffrey Round Competition.

In addition at least one of these Sequences must have been overall winner of the Geoffrey Round AV Competition.

Applicanst must, of course, have been a full member of the IAC for at least five years. Applications need to be ratified by Council and to cover administrative costs there is a £25 application fee. Each AV Sequence must have been made in the name of the applicant in the role of Director. Club entries will not count. Each Sequence may be used by one applicant only.

Any believing they may qualify, please contact David Newman, 78 The Common Quarndon Derbyshire DE22 5JY e-mail david.newman@boltblue.com

Winners of the Geoffrey Round AV Competition (a necessary qualifying condition) include: Richard Brown with “The Story of a Hymn”, 1994;  Sid Pearce with “Oblivion”, 1995; Norman Veale with “Monsieur Maurice”, 1996; Malcolm Imhoff with “Carnival in Venice”, 1997; Harry Duckmanton with “Are You Arkin” 1998; Jean & Reg Royle with “Not I Surely” 2000; Ron Davies with “Idwal Bach” 2001; Gabriele Pinardi with “Il Ladro di Recordi”, 2002; Peter Coles with “City of Flowers” 2003; Johan Werbrouck and Freddy Adam with “The Vanishing Race” 2004; Ron Davies with “Hedd Wyn”, 2005; Johan Werbrouck with “Room 17″ 2006; Jacques van de Weerdt with “Essai sur Ma Haine” 2007.

All these potential FACI (M) Distiction holders need now is another nine International Awardwinning Sequences four of which need to have gained Awards in the Geoffrey Round event! That’s a tall order !!!!!

The Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Awards for Photographic Merit in Audio VisualThe Adjudication was held on Saturday 10th March Successful applicants at Credit Level ~ CPAGBRalph Wilkinson Malling Camera ClubRosemary Pines Clacton Camera Club Sandie Wilson St Mary’s Bay Camera ClubSuccessful applicants at Distinction Level ~ DPAGB Raymond Hughes Merville Newtownabbey PCKeith Fisher West Lancs AV GroupBernard Turnbull Essex AV GroupRobert Brisley Folkstone Camera ClubSuccessful applicant at Master Level ~ MPAGBIan Bateman Wantage Camera Club