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ABOUT L'ETNA

Founded by filmmakers for filmmakers in 1997 in Paris, L'ETNA is a space for creation, workshops and exchanges around experimental cinema. The association aims to ensure material independence for authors caring about cinematographic experimentations, practical and formal proposals.

Our space is filled with all the necessary equipment for shooting, developing, editing, plastic manipulations on films, and projections in super 8, 16mm, 35mm and digital video format. By putting together the means of fabrication, and demystifying the idea of cinema as an "unaccessible art", each one can make films here, without waiting for hypothetical funds, and find the tools corresponding to his/her own process of creation.

L'ETNA is also a space of transmission of a certain knowledge : we propose workshops about the different technics of experimental cinema, in order to share with everyone the aesthetical, formal, political, philosophical, technical, personal... questions linked to the art of moving images and sounds.

Regular screenings in our space allows filmmakers to gather and share their visions and questions. From time to time, screenings outside of L'ETNA are also organized, to spread the idea of cinema as a space of experiments and freedom to a wider audience.

Special screening organized at L'ETNA :

- Special screening : Collectif Negatif (April 2008)
- Special screening of the documentary Retour sur Ouvea by Mehdi Lallaoui, in presence of Mehdi Lallaoui and Jean-Louis Comolli (March 2008)
- "Sexe & Montage" (Sept 2007)
- Hommage to Julien Pappe (May 2007)
- Festival des (plus ou moins) 10 ans de L'ETNA (June 2006)
- Special screening : Olivier Fouchard (2006)
- Special screening : Lionel Soukaz
- Special screening : Derek Woolfenden
- Special screening : Boris Du Boullay
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Main screenings organized by L'ETNA for other venues :

- "Poesie E Toile 2007", experimental screenings, performances and lectures of poetry, for the festival Printemps des Poetes, at Espace 1789 in Saint-Ouen, programmation Sophie Cabaille and Viviane Vagh (March 2007)
- "Poesie E Toile", experimental screenings and lectures of poetry for the Printemps des Poetes, Espace 1789 in Saint-Ouen, programmation Sophie Cabaille et Viviane Vagh (March 2006)
- La Rencontre des Labos, Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium (Dec 2005)
- Cinemathèque universitaire Censier-Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle), programmation Christophe Karabache (January / May 2005)
- Meeting on experimental cinema, organized by Maison du film court at SACD, Paris (January 2005)
- "Approche d'un cinema alternatif 9/9 : L'Etna", organized par Colas Ricard at Cinematographe, Nantes (June 2004)
- Les jeudis cinemas differents du Collectif Jeune Cinema : L'Etna, programmation Philippe Cote, La Clef, Paris (June 2004)
- Festival "O Crepuscule", Tranches de l'Art, La Guinguette, Nimes (April 2004)
- "Purgatoire, les bonnes adresses", Le Crochet de la Cedille, Les Voutes, Paris (April 2004)
- Festival Signes de nuit, Cinema Le Balzac, Paris (March 2004)
- Videoart Center Tokyo, Videoart Channel, Tokyo (February 2004)
- Rencontres L'Art du mouvement, Angers (December 2003)
- Festival Signes de nuit, Cinema Le Balzac, Paris (March 2003)
- 4th Festival des cinemas differents, Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris (December 2002)
- Videoart Center Tokyo, intercultural video exhibition, Europe et Japon (April 2002)
- Cinema Le Kino, Universitée de Lille 3 (March 2002)
- Rencontres Traverse Video, Toulouse (February 2002)
- Screening at Le Batofar, Paris (January 2002)
- 3rd Festival des cinemas differents, Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris (December 2001)
- Screening at Forum des Images, Paris (July 2001)
- Screening at Magic Cinema, Bobigny (May 2001)
- 2nd Festival des cinemas differents, Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris (December 2000)
- "Jeune, dure et pure ! Une histoire du cinema d'avant-garde et experimental en France", Cinemathèque française, Paris (May/July 2000)
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