Bottled Songs 1-4
by Chloé Galibert-Laîné , Kevin B. Lee
Content warning: scenes, words or images may offend the spectators' sensitivity
In competition 2021
Official synopsis
“Bottled Songs” is an ongoing media project depicting strategies aiming at making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters through videos originating from the terrorist group ISIS. They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations directly on their computers.
The programmer’s eye
The cinema of Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee has the immense virtue of infusing sensitive elements into theoretical material, which is made possible thanks to the intimacy offered by desktop films. In the awareness of the fragmentation and expansion of our contemporary geographies, a first shock occurs with regard to “Bottled Songs”, which those bottles that are thrown into the digital ocean while waiting to be picked up, listened to and interpreted. But the most lasting transplant is found in the vertigo of this relentless investigation into Daesh propaganda, which reveals the porosity between what’s virtual and real. — Pierre Guidez
Biography and Filmography
Chloé Galibert-Laîné is a French researcher and filmmaker. She is currently preparing a research-creation PhD at the École normale supérieure de Paris (SACRe - PSL University). Galibert-Laîné regularly teaches theory classes and artistic workshops about film and media, recently at the Université Paris 8 (FR), the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (NL), the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (DE), the Lucerne School of Art and Design (CH) and the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart (DE). Her work takes different forms (texts, films, video installations and live performances) and explores the intersections between cinema and online media. She is particularly interested in questions related to modes of spectatorship, gestures of appropriation and mediated memory. Galibert-Laîné’s films have shown at festivals such as the FIDMarseille (FR), True/False Festival (US), EMAF (DE), transmediale (DE), the Images Festival (CA), the Kasseler Dokfest (DE), the Ars Electronica Festival (AT), the WRO Media Art Biennale (PL) and the FIPADOC (FR).
2020 - BOTTLED SONGS 1-4 - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2020 - A VERY LONG EXPOSURE TIME (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2020 - FORENSICKNESS (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2019 - WATCHING THE PAIN OF OTHERS (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2019 - RE-ENACTING THE FUTURE (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2018 - FLÂNERIE 2.0 (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2018 - READING // BINGING // BENNING (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2018 - PLANNING UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS: THE MAKING OF ‘ROUTE ONE USA’ (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2017 - DIGITAL MEMOSCAPE (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2017 - THE EYE WAS IN THE TOMB AND LOOKED AT DANEY (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2015-2016 - SELECTED VIDEO ESSAYS (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2015 - THE BURROW (Short) - Chloé Galibert Laîné - Director
Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning “Transformers: The Premake” introduced the “desktop documentary” format and was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound and screened in many festivals including Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival. He was 2017 Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. In 2019, he produced “Learning Farocki”, a series of video essays on Harun Farocki, commissioned by the Goethe Institut. In 2020, he co-curated the “Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist” with Will DiGravio and Cydnii Wilde Harris. He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor from 2011-2016, supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, where he co-directs the Masters Program in Research in Art, Design and Media.
2020 - BOTTLED SONGS 1-4 - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2020 - HARUN FAROCKI: LEXICON (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2020 - HARUN FAROCKI: PRESENTED (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2019 - RE-ENACTING THE FUTURE (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2019 - HARUN FAROCKI: THE COUNTER-IMAGE (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2018 - READING // BINGING // BENNING (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2017 - NOT ANOTHER CAMELOT (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2017 - #MOVIEOFMYLIFE (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2016 - RIGHT NOW THEN WRONG (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2016 - OCCUPATION (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2014 - TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2013 - LASTING ELEMENTS ON THE LAST HORIZON (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2012 - SIMPLE EXPRESSIONS OF ABSOLUTE VALUES (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2004 - DASTAAR: DEFENDING SIKH IDENTITY (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2003 - ON GUARD (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2002 - BANANA (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee
Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee
Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee
Square Eyes
by Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee
Chloé Galibert-Laîné is a French researcher and filmmaker. She is currently preparing a research-creation PhD at the École normale supérieure de Paris (SACRe - PSL University). Galibert-Laîné regularly teaches theory classes and artistic workshops about film and media, recently at the Université Paris 8 (FR), the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (NL), the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (DE), the Lucerne School of Art and Design (CH) and the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart (DE). Her work takes different forms (texts, films, video installations and live performances) and explores the intersections between cinema and online media. She is particularly interested in questions related to modes of spectatorship, gestures of appropriation and mediated memory. Galibert-Laîné’s films have shown at festivals such as the FIDMarseille (FR), True/False Festival (US), EMAF (DE), transmediale (DE), the Images Festival (CA), the Kasseler Dokfest (DE), the Ars Electronica Festival (AT), the WRO Media Art Biennale (PL) and the FIPADOC (FR).
2020 - BOTTLED SONGS 1-4 - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2020 - A VERY LONG EXPOSURE TIME (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2020 - FORENSICKNESS (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2019 - WATCHING THE PAIN OF OTHERS (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2019 - RE-ENACTING THE FUTURE (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2018 - FLÂNERIE 2.0 (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2018 - READING // BINGING // BENNING (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2018 - PLANNING UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS: THE MAKING OF ‘ROUTE ONE USA’ (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2017 - DIGITAL MEMOSCAPE (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2017 - THE EYE WAS IN THE TOMB AND LOOKED AT DANEY (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2015-2016 - SELECTED VIDEO ESSAYS (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné - Director
2015 - THE BURROW (Short) - Chloé Galibert Laîné - Director
Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning “Transformers: The Premake” introduced the “desktop documentary” format and was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound and screened in many festivals including Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival. He was 2017 Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. In 2019, he produced “Learning Farocki”, a series of video essays on Harun Farocki, commissioned by the Goethe Institut. In 2020, he co-curated the “Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist” with Will DiGravio and Cydnii Wilde Harris. He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor from 2011-2016, supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, where he co-directs the Masters Program in Research in Art, Design and Media.
2020 - BOTTLED SONGS 1-4 - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2020 - HARUN FAROCKI: LEXICON (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2020 - HARUN FAROCKI: PRESENTED (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2019 - RE-ENACTING THE FUTURE (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2019 - HARUN FAROCKI: THE COUNTER-IMAGE (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2018 - READING // BINGING // BENNING (Short) - Chloé Galibert-Laîné et Kevin B. Lee - Director
2017 - NOT ANOTHER CAMELOT (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2017 - #MOVIEOFMYLIFE (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2016 - RIGHT NOW THEN WRONG (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2016 - OCCUPATION (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2014 - TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2013 - LASTING ELEMENTS ON THE LAST HORIZON (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2012 - SIMPLE EXPRESSIONS OF ABSOLUTE VALUES (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2004 - DASTAAR: DEFENDING SIKH IDENTITY (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2003 - ON GUARD (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director
2002 - BANANA (Short) - Kevin B. Lee - Director