PROJECTIONS

Films to turn up the heat on La Nuit de l'Amour and stimulate our senses.

Progressive Touch (18+) depicts three futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to “improve” sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance as comedy. Enacted by three real life couples, the dancers’ every explicit move is synchronized to the propulsive, unpredictable score which borrows elements from progressive rock, trap and math metal. 

The movie continues Portnoy’s line of generative satirical works, which “improve” upon existing cultural forms and styles through complication, permutation and evolutionary hybridization.

With Bisous Bisous, PAL/SECAM - a duo made up of documentary maker Cathy Blisson and performer/artificer Amaury Vanderborght - presents a large-format video projection specially created for the Nuit de l'Amour.

Filmed in close-up at 60 frames per second, various couples, some formed for the occasion and some not, seek each other out in a game of face-to-face. Trying to capture the physicality of the encounter as closely as possible, the camera's lens lingers on the micro-movements involved in coming together, creating a fluid, indistinct landscape of the body.

One ticket gives you access to all La Nuit de l'Amour activities.