This is a deserted black space that one tries to fill in. To the point of becoming totally submerged in color. One explores the chromatic circle, by turning around it meticulously. And by vertical unreeling, a process specific to cinema.
«Whilst the greater number of our nocturnal visions are perhaps no more than faint and fantastic reflections of our waking experiences, there are still a certain remainder whose immundane and ethereal character permit of no ordinary interpretation, and whose vaguely exciting and disquieting effect...
Work on speed, rhythms, flickers and color, whose «main tendency should be to serve Expression as fully as possible». The idea for this film was born during experiments on the film strip, with the Nominoë collective.
The revelation of an image, which progresses towards the heart of matter, captured in an incoercible movement: that of a dystopia in motion. A primitive entity on the brink of cataclysm, an infinite headlong rush, until all forms and figures are completely dissolved. What dark forest have we...
Prior to any other treatment, the emulsion is covered with layers of chemical products, resulting in a black filmstrip. "The black leader can be anticipated as Malevitch's white painting: a space in which everything is possible, the space of absolute potentiality and virtuality." This is because...
Director Emmanuel Lefrant explores the mechanisms of memory by entangling the image of a landscape in Africa with a film strip that had been buried and subjected to erosion in the same place the sequence was shot. With these landscapes in fusion, invisible takes shape with the visible, where the...
Performance for 4 mobile 16mm projectors, a triple screen, and a spatialized sound diffusion. Parallax – an effect by which the position of an object seems to change when it is looked at from different positions. Working on the concept of geometry and space in the cinema, from the planar space of...
Through a series of painstaking material interventions, Lefrant constructs a landscape where human dominance over the environment - defined as the age of the Anthropocene - is starkly visualised.
STILL FRAMES is a laboratory film, conceived while I was finishing SARABAN. Indeed the two films were produced from the same images. The aim was not only to prove that the same source of image can generate two different films but also to highlight the incidence of light on color.
