Since 2003 the International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT is active in Paris and all over the world. In its 8th Edition in 2010 the festival has presented around 200 films coming from 50 countries.
SIGNES DE NUIT is comprised of films that reflect new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself to the unpredictable experimentation. The festival shows films and audio-visual works coming from all over the world, which test new audio-visual languages and in the same time are interested in current problems and situations of present societies. The purpose is to establish a global communication which escapes from the simplifications of the mass-media.
Special artistic forms of these films, which combine music, image, movement, rhythm, text, space, lighting and time carry not only an aesthetic purpose, but also broaden the possibilities of communication and understanding between people coming from very different mental, social and physiological backgrounds. Facing the negative consequences of mass communication and of stereotypes seems to us a necessary responsibility of the modern cinema and audio-visual production.
This opposition and the preservation of the free cultural space is the goal of the International Festival Signes de Nuit, which has realized screenings and interventions in 25 different countries including Algeria, Australia, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, Lithuania, Indonesia, Japan, Peru, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States beside the screenings in Paris.

Dieter Wieczorek - Artistic Director of Signes de Nuit Film Festival

CURATOR OF CARTE BLANCHE SIGNES DE NUIT: DIETER WIECZOREK
After having left academic hospitalities in philosophy, literature, sociology, political science, history and art theory, Dieter Wieczorek has worked as free contemporary art and culture critic and later film critic, constantly publishing in European journals and newspapers. In the last years he publishes mainly festival and film reviews  in Germans independent film critic journal « Filmmagazin Schnitt ». He is member of FIPRESCI.
He has collaborated in various  international art projects and organized conferences on the possibilities and limits of contemporary art practices. After having created installations and performances in the ‘90s, in 1999 he founded the « Commission of Situation Creation », an international network of « strange situations creation in public spaces ». In 2003 he founded the International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT : Festival of audiovisual and cinematographic creation and Documentary Art. Since then, beside the main festival, around 90 selected programs have been shown out door in up to now 25 countries. He lives as a nomadic Phi-lo/sôpher (sic) and night owl in Paris .