About

A creative editing marathon was offered to the public, drawing on a pool of selected archival material from the collections of CNRS Images, the Cinémathèque Centrale de l’Enseignement Public at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, laboratory footage from the Complex Systems network, the archives of the British Film Institute, and the archives of Université de Montréal.

Participants were invited to create short films bringing science, storytelling and imagination into dialogue. Working with research footage, observations of the living world and representations of complex systems, each participant was free to explore the concept of a complex system in their own way, through films that could be poetic, documentary, experimental or unconventional.

The screening of the films produced during the marathon will be preceded by a brief presentation of the archival collections and followed by the presentation of three awards:

✧ Imaginary Ecosystems Award: for the most poetic short film
✧ Mad Bumblebee Award: for the most unconventional short film
✧ Embodied Complexity Award: for the short film that best communicates scientific ideas to a general audience

This event will also be an opportunity to present the Unarchive Complexity Award to the best film among those selected for this first edition of Unarchive Complexity.

**The awards were specially imagined and created for the occasion by artist and scientist **Helena Cruz de Carvalho.

Film / Awards Ceremony

Auditorium
18h – 19h30

The jury

Francesca Barbieri

Francesca Barbieri is a science communication officer at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France, a filmmaker, and the project lead for Unarchive Complexity.

David Chavalarias

David Chavalarias is a Research Director at the CNRS and heads the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France. Former Vice-President of the Complex Systems Society, he holds degrees in mathematics and computer science from ENS Cachan and a PhD in cognitive science from École Polytechnique. His research focuses on social and cognitive dynamics, with a particular emphasis on large-scale web data analysis.

Céline Ferlita

Céline Ferlita is a filmmaker at the ARDIS unit (UAR 2259). Since 2012, she has been creating a range of audiovisual formats for laboratories at the Villejuif campus and the CNRS Île-de-France Villejuif regional office, from researcher portraits and documentaries to science communication videos. Meeting researchers and sharing their work with a wider audience are her main sources of motivation.

André Habib

André Habib is a professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at Université de Montréal. He is also co-editor of the online journal Hors champ. His recent research focuses on the aesthetics of ruins, archives, experimental cinema and cinephilia.

Frédéric Rolland

Frédéric Rolland is head of the Cinémathèque Centrale de l’Enseignement Public and video acquisitions officer at the Direction des Bibliothèques Universitaires of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He also teaches courses in film history and media sociology at Université Gustave Eiffel.

Catherine Ventenat

Catherine Ventenant is a documentary researcher and head of audiovisual archives at CNRS Images.