Movies: Light Cone

In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the or...

“While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.“ (Kōbō Abe) Liminal zones. Floating particles. Fire, water, earth, air. Voices of fictional charac...

9 key moving image works created by filmmaker Christian Lebrat over a ten-year period (1976-1985). Each film focus on an aspect of his experimentation with the use of color in cinema....

Take an artful, startling journey into unexplored regions of feminine sexuality. A sensitive and lyrical film set to become a cult classic as it explores what it considers centuries of patriarchal oppression. The land of feminine pleasures has remain...

A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where t...

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Daucus Buganvilia is a collection of natural elements in direct contact with the film. Lichen, sylvan plants, dried petals, found leaves, meet the photochemical support through an experimentation of cinema without camera which discovers the minute co...

A woman and her double in a caressing game....

Radical, means what has to do with roots. The film is made with black radish: minced and cut in parts, then patiently placed and exposed on film. In a digital age, we go back to the roots of cinema!...

One of the series of labodoble experiments of the natural (organic) film developers. The structure of the film is based on the chemical formula of the Rhus Typhina's developer. The main protagonist of the film is a species of flowering plant in the f...

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A deep zoom shot that plays with the definitions of sexe (sex or sexual organ) and thym (thyme), which rhymes with the English word time, creating a game with words and images....

Cinexpérimentaux is a series of documentaries on experimental filmmakers, produced and directed by Michel Amarger and Frédérique Devaux. N°8 is dedicated to the most important European cooperative Light Cone created in 1982 in Paris....

This film was provoked by a trip on the overhead railway through the centre of Chicago in 1991. I filmed a twelve minute piece facing forwards in the direction we were driving. Three years later I came across the film material once more. The memory o...