2024 exhibitions

Remarquables ! (Remarkable Women!)

Women and cinema
Drawings, paintings, photos, sculptures, art installations
Chapelle des Cordeliers – Place Sugny
Clermont-Ferrand
29 January > 17 February
4:00 to 18:00 except Sundays
Preview: Saturday 3 February at 18:00
Free entrance

For this thematic exhibition, twenty-eight artists will pay tribute to all these exceptional, prodigious, always surprising women.

They will introduce us to these impetuous women, clear or obscure, with a strong character in black ink or a more nuanced line, pigmented, dark or overexposed, gifted and talented for art and life, who have marked, are marking and will mark the history of the seventh art.

In short, a close-up on the hearts of women, where the soundtrack is a chorus of women.

The following artists have agreed to participate:

Héroïnes (Heroines)

Film posters
La Jetée documentation center
6 place Michel-de-L’Hospital
Clermont-Ferrand
30 January > 29 February
During the Festival:
everyday from 10:00 to 19:00
Outside the Festival:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 13:00 to 19:00
Free entrance

Spotlight on our cinema heroines, the powerful, rebellious women who have lit up the screen!

Women have always been filmed as objects of pleasure, depriving them of power in favour of the male gaze and its desires. Little by little, by taking on the roles of heroines, women are extending into the world of fiction a movement of liberation that is challenging traditional models. Gone are the days of the beautiful evaporate!

Images of liberated, combative, eccentric and powerful women reflect the advances made by feminists as much as the fears they arouse. These heroines become a receptacle for fantasies and projections of all kinds, and set themselves up as models and icons.

Through a selection of original posters, exploitation photos, books and magazines, this exhibition invites you to take a visual journey exploring women’s fascinating, complex and ambivalent relationship with cinema.

Independant artists:

Marie Beaupain
Marc Brunier-Mestas
Léni Champainne
Fabienne Cinquin
Gabrielle Cornuault
Brian Cougar
Franck Fiat
Cécile Gambini
Gabrielle Jimenez
Fred Le Falher
Alicia Lévy
François Mallet
Nina Maurent
Clément Murin
Thierry Toth

Anatomie du labo 16
(Anatomy of the Lab 16)

Plastic arts
Salle Gilbert-Gaillard
2 rue Saint-Pierre – Clermont-Ferrand
2 > 24 February
From Tuesday to Saturday
From 9:30 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 18:00
Preview: Thursday 1 February at 18:30
Free entrance

In Petit Cahier de cinéma, the new film by director Pang-Chuan Huang selected in the 2024 Lab Competition, we learn that it is possible to develop the film of a short black and white film with wine (it also works with coffee or tea). This chemical operation works because the developer product requires molecules called ‘phenols’ (present in the drinks mentioned above), which are concentrated in the developer products sold, for example, in all photo shops.
It was with this poetic and ecological premise in mind (industrial developers are particularly polluting), and with an unquenchable thirst (sic) for experimentation, that all the participants in the exhibition decided to express themselves by creating works of art: For example, students from the Lycée La Martinière-Diderot (in Lyon, France) responded to the short films selected by designing seven kits inspired by educational toys such as “Safe chemistry – 150 experiments” or “Vanity Case”, which playfully reproduces the dystopian world of the animated film Via Dolorosa by director Rachel Gutgarts.

Anatomy of the Lab is also an opportunity to showcase the work of Clermont-Ferrand’s graphic designers. This year, to name just two, the walls of the Salle Gaillard will host an illustration by Clément Murin (a talented designer and calligrapher from the ESACM – École Supérieure d’Art de Clermont Métropole) and a silkscreen by poster artist Brian Cougar (his favourite subject being music and concerts). You’ll have the chance to see the latter in action at the exhibition opening, when a screen-printing ‘battle’ will take place between Mr Cougar and students from Aurillac’s Lycée Saint-Géraud (France, Auvergne).

Participating institutions :

• Students from La Martinière-Diderot, Diplôme national des Métiers d’art et du design, Spectacle et Matériaux (Lyon, France)
• Students from Lycée Saint-Géraud, bac pro and DNMade graphisme (Aurillac, France)
• Students from Lycée Lafayette, vocational baccalaureate in multi-media visual communication (Clermont-Fd, France)
• Inmates from the Riom detention center (France)
• Art therapy participants from the Sainte-Marie hospital (Clermont-Fd, France)

Kourtrajmé Fabrike
(Kourtrajmé Faktory)

Directors cuts
Galerie Dolet – Crous Clermont Auvergne
25 rue Étienne-Dolet– Clermont-Ferrand
2 > 23 February
Everyday from 9:00 to 20:00
Preview: Wednesday 7 February at 18:00
Free entrance

The Kourtrajmé film schools are opening up their workshops to you, with a “making off” look at their courses and film shoots: photos from the set, working documents, storyboards and moodboards, artwork… All the traces of an inspiring collective adventure, that of students from all over the world, to create together, with kindness and high standards.

The Kourtrajmé film schools offer free audiovisual training open to all, with no diploma requirements, and with the France 2030 label. They respond to the immense challenges of representing the sector, while supporting the creation of original short films. Launched in 2018 by the filmmaker Ladj Ly in Montfermeil, they are carrying out associative and militant research-action, adapting their model to each new territory: Marseille, Dakar, Guadeloupe…

See the Invited Film School programmes.

Le festival s’affiche !
(The Festival shows its colours!)

Official posters
Centre Jaude Mercure Hotel
1 avenue Julien
Clermont-Ferrand
17 January > 15 February
8:00 to Midnight every day
Free entrance

Each year, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival invites an illustrator to design the poster for its next edition. These artists are invited to live the festival experience to the full, as jurors or guests, and to contribute to their work, which will be unveiled the following year. The Mercure Hotel invites you to come and (re)discover the 46 posters that have made the history of the festival, through a retrospective exhibition of original posters and digital prints for the occasion. It’s an opportunity to immerse yourself in the original works of such world-renowned artists in the fields of illustration and animation as Roberto Catani, Marc Craste, Rebecca Dautremer, Blutch, Blexbolex, Rosto, Chris Buzelli, Riccardo Guasco, Dave McKean, Yuko Shimizu, Brecht Evens and Regina Pessoa.

Femme Arkenciel
(Rainbow Woman)

Plastic arts
Formes et couleurs Workshop
Maison des Beaumontois
21 rue René-Brut – Beaumont
2 > 16 February
From Monday to Wednesday from 14:00 to 18:00
Free entrance
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From the projection room at La Jetée to the Formes et Couleurs workshop at the Maison des Beaumontois, the students, with the help of guest artists, have fashioned a treasure trove of individual and collective finds. To share the humour and creativity of their rebellious rambles with the public, an exhibition of drawings and paintings will be on show in the workshop during the festival.

The students have given free rein to their imagination, creating portraits of strong women, rebellious heroines and symbolic attributes of women who have stepped out of the box.

Such’art, parcours artistique (Such’Art, an artistic journey)

Street art
Permanent artworks
2.5 km route through the town center
Clermont-Ferrand
Accessible 24/7 free access

Taking its name from the ancient Auvergne word Suc (meaning Summit), Such’art is an artistic journey through the heart of historic Clermont: galleries, artists’ studios, antique shops and other places encouraging art and creation are all to be found here.
Along the streets, you’ll discover a variety of street art: paintings, graffiti, collages, mosaics, sculptures… More than 150 artists have taken part!
If you’re passing through for the festival, climb up to the central plateau and discover this unique heritage.

Christine Safa – De chair et de pierre
(In flesh and stone)

Paintings
frac auvergne
6 rue Terrail – Clermont-Ferrand
Until 3 March
From Tuesday to Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00
On Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00
Free entrance
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In flesh and stone, Christine Safa’s first exhibition in an institution, reflects the artist’s sensitive relationship with the world.

Her paintings are born of the recollection of sensations experienced some time earlier, even before the idea of painting had materialised. Sensations of dry heat, of enveloping torpor, of summer heat that numbs the body, of immersion in water that gives everything around a sense of unreality. The artist places these immaterial, fleeting moments on the support before it dries. Drying gives the surface the appearance of solid limestone. The paint becomes stone. The ephemeral becomes sealed, “imprisoned” in the surface.