The Young French Cinema - a new generation of Directors, is a program of UniFrance and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S available to U.S. art house cinemas, film societies, the Alliance Française network and universities. The program includes 12 feature films (11 French, one Canadian) and 8 short films. All films can be booked “à la carte." For all requests please contact UniFrance (adeline.monzier@unifrance.org).

The Black Mountain

Residency in collaboration with The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Asheville, NC

The artists will explore the history and specificity of the Black Mountain College and the elasticity of time through images of its past and utopian desires. The Black Mountain is a video project set on the historic place of the Black Mountain College in North Carolina, USA. The video will be based on stories, happenings and events which happened during the period of its activities (1933-1957). Reenacting moments fixed on photographs during its years of activity and designed as a tribute, the film will be looking for visual expression and freedom, frozen in time. Crossing boundaries between performance, documentary approaches and free form, the project is a collaboration with the BMC Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina.

The organization Culture Mill will host French choreographer Christian Ubl, and two of his collaborators from Compagnie CUBE Dance for a 3 weeks residency in rural North Carolina. The residency will focus on bridging Ubl’s work to institutions, local communities, public schools as well as the local dance professionals through a series of dance workshops, culminating in the realization of 3 “Summer Ball” events. The Summer Ball combines short choreographies inspired by folks dances, line dances and social dances with a contemporary dance vocabulary.

At von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center
Tuesday, June 25, 8:00pm
Wednesday, June 26, 8:00pm
In They Are All North Carolina choreographers Murielle Elizéon (French-born and now NC-based dancer, performer, choreographer, and teacher) and Tommy Noonan interweave the combined expertise of professional dancers, neuroscientists, people with Parkinson’s disease, and data informaticists. The multi-generational work explores the relationship between cognitive engagement, interpersonal relationships, and movement. At once an artistic and research project, They Are All probes the ways in which artistic technologies and perspectives can be useful to medical research, as well as the ways in which medical, technological, and experiential expertise in movement disorders can generate new artistic perspectives in dance.

From April 6 to July 14, the High Museum of Art presents the European Masterworks: the Phillips collection.

Discover the iconic works by Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist, and Cubist artists brought together by Duncan Phillips who wanted to share European modernism with a larger audience.

February 16 – August 11, 2019 At MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART

Curated by Donal Harris, Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Memphis and Julian Rome, Senior, University of Memphis Painted Words: Poets and Painters in Print, 1870-1970 showcases three volumes that combine literary and visual art through printmaking. Since the late-nineteenth century, the tradition of peintre-graveur ("painter-engraver") in France imagined printmaking as a natural synthesis of the verbal, visual, and manual arts. The exhibited works, which range from Paris in the 1860s to New York in the 1960s, combine poetry and graphic work to test not only the bounds of each art form, but also the bounds of printmaking itself.

French artist CEET was presented with a Community Design Award in May for the mural he installed on Cascade Road and Mays Drive as part of France-Atlanta 2018, a manifestation founded by The French Consulate General and Georgia Tech. The mural was installed under a partnership between Elevate Atlanta, the Major’s office of Cultural Affairs, the City of Toulouse and the Cultural services of the French Embassy in 2018.

Stream the second season of the award-winning series, Les Engagés, which explores the lives of youth activists at the LGBT center in Lyon. Make sure to also catch BIM Experience, a never-before-seen documentary which follows the story of a musical collective from Benin, which premieres in the US on June 19.