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Incoherence Manifesto, by Bertrand Mandico and Katrin Olafsdottir

Editorial

"To be incoherent means to have faith in cinema, it means to have a romantic approach , unformatted, free, disturbed and dreamlike, cinegenic, an epic narration. Incoherence that's an absence of cynicism but not irony. It's embracing the genre without penetrating it."

Elina Löwensohn and Nathalie Richard in 'Notre-Dame des Hormones'

"The International Incoherence is a concept that we have established with Katrin Olafsdottir. We have listed everything that makes our biases of staging against the current. Biases that may seem incoherent in the dominant industry of arthouse cinema. To be incoherent means to have faith in cinema, it means to have a romantic approach , unformatted, free, disturbed and dreamlike, cinegenic, an epic narration. Incoherence that's an absence of cynicism but not irony. It's embracing the genre without penetrating it. Incoherences are a whole group of young talented filmmakers like Marie Losier, Yann Gonzales, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel. It's a flamboyant surge not a dogma."

[Bertrand Mandico interviewed by Martin Kudlac for Screen Anarchy]

 

INTERNATIONAL / INCOHERENCE

manifest

1. Rejection of any rule of screenplay. / Screenplay Incoherence

2. The sound will be created in post production. / Manufacturing Incoherence

3. Filming must be done on expired film stock. / Sophistication Incoherence

4. Special effects must be made in-camera (overprint, projections etc).

Banish post-production. / Effects Inchoherence

5. Use of optical effects in-camera (filters etc). / Style Incoherence

6. The film must be in an uncertain geography , timeless, ban any realistic effect. / Time and geography Incoherence

7. The material for the sets (scenery, costume and props) must come from found material. / Taste Incoherence

8. Films must be hybrids containing at least two genres. / Style Incoherence

9. The film used can be 16mm, 35mm, Super 8mm. / Economic Incoherence

10. The director must be the author, cameraman and art director of the film. / Creative Incoherence

11. Actors will alternate non acting and overacting. / Acting Incoherence

12. The film does not belong to any aesthetic or narrative tendency. It must have a deep and fragile cinematography / Cinematographic Incoherence

 

Internationale manifest inconsistency.

Reykjavik / Barcelona / Paris / Berlin / October 12, 2012