Movies: Carole Contant

In French the title is a play on words and sound. As the wet finger goes around the circumference of a stemmed glass, feet reflect in a windowpane and turn around a circle painted behind me. A musical duo which looks for the harmony of an oval in a r...

I was with Rose when I discovered this flowery underwear for 1€ at the Place Jean Jaurès market in Marseille. Roselyne Roche had begun to make films in Super 8 well before me. I dedicate this short film in pink, red, black and white to Rose. I made i...

Dialect between derisory and necessity, vitamin A and bombs which rain down. Monochrome yellow cognitive (nazism’s jewish star, sunny light, fire, yellow disinfectant, where are your blues?) This film followed the May 2001 criteria: Do as you please ...

A self-portrait turning around by foot after picking up fragments of myself from all around. Return home: accept that the only balance is movement. Contemplate serenity tourmented by this gay knowledge....

Vampirical cry from the voice of the piano….or, when inspiration came in a dream. This film followed the criteria for April 2000 and June 2003: a short boys’ film and a mute film respectively....

met Laila at the art video festival in Casablanca in March 2000, it is the first time that I am friends with a woman who prays for Allah. Six months later she marries my brother Christophe....

Burkina new year muslim ritual, otherwise known as the sheep fair. Ouagadougou, March 2nd 2001. This film followed the September 2001 criteria: the great feast of short films....

In one day and night alone, a crowd of obstacles appears on a young tiger’s route, convinced that a plot is brewing. ‘Jungle Tale’: Young, dynamic manager caught in the trap of his Machiavellian everyday life, Shere Khan comes out of work and returns...

Muslim baptism ritual with ‘a little something’ of an American Catholic touch. In the heart of the sun, they dance in unison in a strange and worrying native circle. The infant only appears at nightfall. This film followed the August 2001 criteria: a...

Flowers blossoming in the Parisian metro, call to freedom which waltzes in a melancholic tango and searches for innocence in urban unconcern. This film followed the October 2000 criteria: short film without aim....

I was 25 years old August 16th 1999 in Connemara, South Ireland. Road movie whilst the clouds and the rest of time pass by. This film followed the December 2000 criteria: a passing through film....

End of the game. Whilst doing the washing-up, we talk about all and sundry. It is cleansing. This film followed the May 2000 criteria: ‘Do as you please in May’....

During my journey there are encounters of everyday music. My neighbour’s cello, my flatmate’s voice mixes with piano tuners. If we walk around, the Romanian Circus gipsy dances take over the street and Paris livens up with the sunny pace of a town wi...

A man is prostrate in front of his television, which projects the image of his wife when she possibly loved him.She is expecting his child but however accepts his homosexuality. The mental disorder of the husband leads him to rash acts. Time and spac...