Casino's screening evening at Utopia

This year again, Casino Luxembourg will participate in the Luxembourg City Film Festival with the following two films, in the presence of the directors.

Friday 8 March 2019 at  18.30 :Suzan Noesen - Livre d'heures 

Short film, 2018, 25'Venue: Ciné Utopia

Back in Luxembourg after years of working and studying abroad, Suzan Noesen moves in with her grandmother in the old family farmhouse in a small Luxembourgish village after failing to find affordable accommodation and studio space elsewhere. The two end up living in a creative shared living space - with all that this entails. Two contrasting mentalities emerge: the grandmother’s more rigid approach and the supposedly more open nature of her granddaughter. This opposition is explained by the women’s different experiences of work and the female condition, despite being motivated by identical human desires.

The true protagonists of the film, in addition to the women, are the actions and rituals that structure their day. The film is divided into four chapters, marked by the rhythm of daily activity - talking in the kitchen, eating meals together, discussing the need to put flowers on grandfather’s grave. Livre d'heures is a film about intergenerational difference, about identity, about the interdependence of two women and their individual dependence on time.After the film, Suzan Noesen will be available to the public for a question and answer session.

Friday 8 March 2019 at  19.30 :César Vayssié - Don't work 

Film, 1968-2018, 88' 

With : Elsa Michaud, Gabriel Gauthier, leur entourage and footage found on the web. Music : Avia x Orly  Production : Thomas Ordonneau - Shellac ; Caroline Redy - AFE 

Venue: Ciné Utopia 

A wordless film set against a hypnotic soundtrack by Avia x Orly, Don’t Work (1968 – 2018)  follows a year in the life of two art students studying in Paris, Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier. Grappling with love and searching for ways to make performance art matter politically in the face of an incessant cyclone of opinions and images, the two are representative of a generation overwhelmed by the constant onslaught of senseless images in daily life. Set against a frantic montage of news clips, advertising campaigns, internet snippets and jarring images, César Vayssié’s experimental film reflects on the changes that have taken place since May 1968 as well as the transformative act of becoming an artist.

After the film, César Vayssié will be available to the public for a question and answer session.