Movies: Jean-Michel Bouhours

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

The invention of the cinematograph by Louis and Auguste Lumière in 1895 marked the culmination - synthesis, standardisation and industrialisation - of various research carried out in previous years on the decomposition and illusion of movement throug...

Found footage film, on the theme of the Spanish Civil War and the popular song "Ay, Carmela !" (or "El Paso del Ebro"), a song composed in 1808 during the liberation war against the Napoleonic invader and which was taken up by the Republican Army and...

In The Strange Story of Peter Schlemihl written in 1813 by Adelbert von Chamisso, out of necessity of money, the hero decides to sell his shadow to the devil; this shadow is of no use to him; as much as having money. But his life of a being without s...

Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

To construct a film in an atomic way, starting from simple elements which combined with each other will produce a whole. Taking the dot as an elementary unit is not a coincidence if we think that the notion of pixels with video images began to occupy...

A cinema experience with sun, wind and a piece of cloth as the only elements. Man's experience of the play of light and movement preceded not only the invention of the cinematographic device, but also the cave described by Plato in The Republic....

Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique Willoughby, among others, were active participants, with 5 issues published between 1976 and 1979....

The psychomotor development of a young child followed between the ages of 8 and 18 months serves as a reminder of how this extraordinary potential for human development will very quickly be undermined by the capture of the child's attention via scree...

"Chronoma was conceived as a follow-up to Rythmes 76: its composition is still inspired by the repetitive processes of Steve Reich's music, with their gradual progression. This time, we have a sequence of photographs taken with a motorized camera (a ...

In the summer of 1914, Collioure was a small, quiet fishing village, sheltered from the convulsions of a blazing Europe. Matisse painted a curious picture Door-Window in Collioure. Homage to Collioure, nod to the cubists, reference to Matisse; offer...

The Jaleo is a summer festival on the island of Menorca (Spain) based on a parade of horses native to the island and exemplary docility, ridden by funny riders, dressed as clergymen or academicians wearing bicorns. The party lasts 24 hours without in...

According to Hesiod, autumn begins when the Pleiades, the daughters of Atlas, rise. It is generally said that autumn is the most beautiful of the seasons, for the spectacle that nature offers but also because it is the time of the harvest and the gr...

NOCES DE SANG is a tribute to Spanish culture, to the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca and to the cinema of Carlos Saura. New experiments were tried in this film: the palimpsest with series of drawings made on old books, but also the transparency of s...

A meditative film on a composite A+B image. Image B will be in turn an extract from a film by Vittorio de Sica (DUE DONNE), the sun in the trees, the sea, a cliff, the Traveller Contemplating a Sea of Clouds (Friedrich) or his heirs. When image A is...

The history of modern painting includes white paintings . So why not a "white film"? This film includes images, from the oldest Romanesque cloister in Aragon, dating from the 10th century. These are diaphanous images, devoid of temporality and materi...

Chantilly Revisited combines the slow-motion images of the film Chantilly (1976) and the original painted elements. It is a work of deconstruction of the grid of the original film which confronts the cinematographic framework as a unit with multiple ...

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Autonomous part of the film UNDER THE SIGN OF THE LION, corresponding to the letter L. Camera obscura experience. Capture the light ray, place it in a frame, which itself has a second internal frame. Visual effects of flickers and "counterflickers," ...

It was while proceeding with the digital restoration of the film CHANTILLY produced in 1976 that the idea for this project came about. Originally the idea was to do a follow-up to the original film, a sort of unrolling of all the graphic elements of ...