International Competition Award: FUCK THE POLIS by Rita Azevedo Gomes

Georges de Beauregard International Award: FRÍO METAL by Clemente Castor

Special mention of the International Competition Jury: COBRE by Nicolás Pereda

French Competition Award: BONNE JOURNÉE by Pauline Bastard

Georges de Beauregard National Award: HORS-CHAMP, LES OMBRES by Anna Dubosc, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn

Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Award: DES MILLÉNAIRES D’ABSENCE by Philippe Rouy

Special mention of the Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Jury: L’AMOUR SUR LE CHEMIN DES RONCETTES by Sophie Roger

First Film Award: FANTAISIE by Isabel Pagliai

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: LOS CRUCES by Julián Galay

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

Claudia Cardinale Foundation Award: FERNLICHT by Johanna Schorn Kalinsky

Cine+ Distribution support Award in partnership with GNCR: MORTE E VIDA MADALENA by Guto Parente

Flash Competition Award: گل‌های شب ِدریا by Maryam Tafakory

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: A PRELUDE by Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: CONTROL ANATOMY by Mahmoud Alhaj

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: LENGUA MUERTA by José Jiménez

Alice Guy Award: ABORTION PARTY by Julia Mellen

Renaud Victor Award: BULAKNA by Leonor Noivo

Special mention of the Renaud Victor Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

High School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the High School Jury: MIRACULOUS ACCIDENT by Assaf Gruber

The Second Chance School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the Second Chance School Jury: JACOB’S HOUSE by Lucas Kane

Audience Award: LA JUVENTUD ES UNA ISLA by Louise Ernandez

International Competition Award: FUCK THE POLIS by Rita Azevedo Gomes

Georges de Beauregard International Award: FRÍO METAL by Clemente Castor

Special mention of the International Competition Jury: COBRE by Nicolás Pereda

French Competition Award: BONNE JOURNÉE by Pauline Bastard

Georges de Beauregard National Award: HORS-CHAMP, LES OMBRES by Anna Dubosc, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn

Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Award: DES MILLÉNAIRES D’ABSENCE by Philippe Rouy

Special mention of the Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Jury: L’AMOUR SUR LE CHEMIN DES RONCETTES by Sophie Roger

First Film Award: FANTAISIE by Isabel Pagliai

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: LOS CRUCES by Julián Galay

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

Claudia Cardinale Foundation Award: FERNLICHT by Johanna Schorn Kalinsky

Cine+ Distribution support Award in partnership with GNCR: MORTE E VIDA MADALENA by Guto Parente

Flash Competition Award: گل‌های شب ِدریا by Maryam Tafakory

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: A PRELUDE by Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: CONTROL ANATOMY by Mahmoud Alhaj

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: LENGUA MUERTA by José Jiménez

Alice Guy Award: ABORTION PARTY by Julia Mellen

Renaud Victor Award: BULAKNA by Leonor Noivo

Special mention of the Renaud Victor Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

High School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the High School Jury: MIRACULOUS ACCIDENT by Assaf Gruber

The Second Chance School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the Second Chance School Jury: JACOB’S HOUSE by Lucas Kane

Audience Award: LA JUVENTUD ES UNA ISLA by Louise Ernandez

The Most Dangerous Question, The Most Dangerous Question

John Bruce

90’

To lose oneself in the act of walking across landscapes; sojourns adrift in a transnational current. To be lost as an act of disorientation from the paralysis of history; from the charting of territories from colonial maps; from nation-forming borders; the militarization of sovereignty; the extraction of resources; and the speculation of land. The gait of the embodied camera wanders discontinuously through time, shifting across an archive of seemingly disconnected moving images. The slow moving gestures of Noh, the excavation of phosphate on the Pacific island of Nauru, the moss that grows on Snake Rock, the water path of San Agustin Etla, the resonances of Reza Abdoh’s theatre still present. The Most Dangerous Question is a film that refuses to weave its fragments as locatable and instead reveals presences across decades. It is an ode to the ecstatic, intimate states of being.

Director’s statement

The Most Dangerous Question began for me in 1995. I was still alive despite a decade of believing otherwise. I had experienced the advent of HIV/AIDS in NYC having wandered there a decade earlier. Comrades of the resistance disappeared, lessons gleaned through a glimpse toward extinction faded like a problem solved and tidily put away. Through the haze of the fin de siècle, we acted out a resistance to the violence of distances – the many ways we are separated from ourselves, our bodies, each other, ancestors and the land. We recorded a series of site-specific happenings on stages and streets through the performance of ethnography, in part inspired by theater artist Reza Abdoh who left behind a body of work that served as an unvarnished co-witness to my own unblinking experience. Our collective fabulation included tales of Nauru, a Pacific island suffering a tragic, almost comic unfolding of environmental and cultural devastation. Walking with others and the land, listening in and across false separations of time and space are opportunities for these rituals to proliferate, expand, and ravel.

Technical sheet

  • Production:
    Miko Revereza (miko.revereza@gmail.com)
    Train Tracks (John Bruce : mrjohnbruce@gmail.com)
  • Budget:
    180 792 €
  • Acquired Budge:
    70 552 €
  • Funds:
    The New School Provost Office Research Award - The School of Design Strategies Research Award - Parsons Faculty Research Fund
  • Shooting countries:
    United States, Japan, Greece, Italy, Colombia