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Nights
OPENING NIGHT
1 July 2019
08.30 PM - 02.00 AM
Free admission.
Bars and food onsite.
A big party opens the 50th Rencontres d’Arles with projections, Middle Eastern music, stands and photographic inventions to celebrate the festival’s jubilee.
PHOTO STUDIOS
PHOTOGRAPHS OFFERED BY THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES
PHILIPPE PRALIAUD
JONATHAN MAX PIERREDON
MEHDI NÉDELLEC
FATOUMATA DIABATÉ, LE STUDIO PHOTO DE LA RUE ®.
COLLECTIF SHOOT
LA SUISSE DÉCOLLE !
FRANCIS TRAUNIG & HIS TEAM.
With support from the Swiss Confederation.
BRING YOUR OWN BEAMER!
YOKO ISHII
BEN BUCHANAN
RENÉE CHABOT
RAN BEN SIMON
ALEXANDER BONDAR & TATYANA PALYGA
VITOR QUEIROZ
VICTORIA JUNG
SOLÈNE VINCENS
SIMRU HAZAL CIVAN
SEAN KOBI SANDOVAL
PHILIPP ZECHNER
MARTINE RANCARANI
FANNY TERNO
JIJAKO
JESSICA BARTHEL
DAVID PHILIPPON
BRICE KRUMMENACKER
VITTORIO BERGAMASCHI
DIMITRIY LEVDANSKI
ALISA MARTYNOVA
INVENTIONS & INSTALLATIONS
WOUF by BERNARD PRAS
#SELFIE by TOM STAYTE
TOPHOTRUK by FANNY BOIX SABATA
INSTANTANEOUS ENCOUNTERS: AN ISSUE OF ENCOUNTERS by ASSOCIATION DES ANCIENS DE L’ÉCOLE NATIONALE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE D’ARLES
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RENCONTRES IN INSTAX by FISHEYE.
DJ SETS
DJ PAXTON
The head of the Arles radio station 3DFM takes over the turntables to give us an energetic, eclectic mix only he knows how to do.
PALOMA COLOMBE
In her bold, powerful DJ sets, Paloma Colombe, a multi-faceted Franco-Algerian artist, weaves links between music of pan-African influence with deep bass and colorful percussion.
HABIBI FUNK
Funk was started by Jakarta Records co-founder Jannis, with a specific focus on sharing & reissuing essential 60s & 70s music from the Arab world. His mixtapes of amazing funk, disco, soul & psych take us on dusty vinyl journeys from Tunisia to Lebanon, Egypt to Morocco, Syria to Algeria and beyond.