Alexandre Larose

Someone dreams of falling from a building.

Short film by Alexandre Larose

Alexandre Larose creates supernally spectral superimpositions infused with a meteorological mix and the intense lusciousness of the Québec landscape.

Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Composed of old footage from the directors' families.

Video I made for a song from the first album. The song is called " In The Midst Of The Twilight - Evening". Film sequences and stop motions by Alexandre Larose, filmed in Iceland and New York City.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm. https://vimeo.com/71327099

Someone dreams of falling from a building.

Short film by Alexandre Larose

Alexandre Larose creates supernally spectral superimpositions infused with a meteorological mix and the intense lusciousness of the Québec landscape.

Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Composed of old footage from the directors' families.

Video I made for a song from the first album. The song is called " In The Midst Of The Twilight - Evening". Film sequences and stop motions by Alexandre Larose, filmed in Iceland and New York City.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm. https://vimeo.com/71327099

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

Part of Larose's "Ville Marie - B" short film cycle.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

“With this project I fabricate sequences by in-camera layering of repeated trajectories inside a path extending from my family’s home into Lac Saint-Charles. The image-capturing process produces a sedimented landscape that gradually unfolds while simultaneously disintegrating under temporal displacement. Approximately 30 long takes begin at the same frame on the film strip, all shot at a high frame rate. My walking rhythm varies for each trajectory, resulting in the space progressively expanding in depth until I reach the edge of a dock. The duration of the long take corresponds to the length of the celluloid reel, a thousand feet of 35mm film.”—Alexandre Larose

A black-and-white reversal film shot on 35mm.

Drawing on issues of memory, decay, palimpsest and the rubbing together of archive, fiction and situations, pilgrimage was constructed from found strips of 8mm amateur footage gleaned during a residency in Sydney, Australia. The original footage—a tourist’s voyeuristic, filmed impressions of a pilgrimage in a crowded urban space, where the faithful painfully stumble before the entrance of a temple—was reworked using an optical printer and other hand-made techniques.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

A colour reversal film shot on s8mm.

"In this film, I wanted to explore the potential of in-camera editing by photographing and juxtaposing the window frame and its outside landscape as visual references. I executed three attempts (using three rolls of 16mm film) and aligned them one after the other. I wanted to show the raw material exactly as captured inside the camera." ⁠— Alexandre Larose

This is a study from the "scènes de menage" series, starring Jacques Larose and Marie Claude Ferland, the filmmaker’s parents. We see domestic activities that take on a new dimension thanks to the way Larose deals with successive layers. The repetitive, automatic movements that are repeated in places such as the kitchen and the hallway, the succession of actions of getting into the car and leaving the house, are all captured by the camera in multiple overlays, which on being slightly out of sync give rise to a split, multidimensional reality.

Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

Third part of a series, in which the figure in the frame is Larose’s father, Jacques Larose. It was shot in Super-8mm and 16mm—later enlarged to 35mm—and alternates between colour and black and white.

Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white progressivelly disolve within a darknest more and more dense. Faces progressivelly disolves within one another.

Festival 2011 (13th edition of the Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas of Paris): Anticipation # 4 by Alexandre Larose.

Short experimental film by Alexandre Larose

First film made by Alexandre Larose. Made with Microsoft Excel filmed in Super 8.

Part of Larose's "Ville Marie - B" short film cycle.

This series of three works is part of the “household scenes” project, a corpus in development. It is a set of vignettes, cinematographic tableaux, built around the repeated gestures of my parents' daily life. I present these scenes sometimes as sequence shots, sometimes as a succession of cut-out shots. Some depict only one parent, with particular emphasis on how he/she negotiates domestic space. With these paintings, imagined in various environments and by a treatment specific to the medium, I work to reveal the singularity of the places, the movement of the figures and the relationship between the two.

Short film.

This series of three works is part of the “household scenes” project, a corpus in development. It is a set of vignettes, cinematographic tableaux, built around the repeated gestures of my parents’ daily life. I present these scenes sometimes as sequence shots, sometimes as a succession of cut-out shots. Some depict only one parent, with particular emphasis on how he/she negotiates domestic space. With these paintings, imagined in various environments and by a treatment specific to the medium, I work to reveal the singularity of the places, the movement of the figures and the relationship between the two.

Originally filmed inside a train tunnel in Québec City, “930” presents a series of visual passages oscillating between light and darkness, intercut with moments of stillness.

A silent film by Alexandre Larose.

A color reversal compilation shot on 35mm..

Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Filmed in an unlit abandoned music hall in Sackville, NB.

Short film by Alexandre Larose

"I used to live very close to the Jacques-Cartier bridge, one of the major structures that connects the island of Montréal with the South shore. I would go there often for walks and eventually created a few sequences, testing some ideas I had for in-camera layering." -Alexandre Larose

This film is an in-camera portrait of my niece, Mia Larose (who was six months old at the time) captured during a winter family reunion in Lac Saint-Charles, Québec. Shot on a single roll of super 8mm film and hand-processed.

Originally shown as three separate films, I. / II. / III. is a triptych portrait of the most intimate proportions. Simple scenes within the domicile become completely entrancing as layer after layer of exposure unfurls onto itself. The movement of the leaves, the light, his father: all become hypnotic in this silent sonata.

In 16th century Shingly (Kochi, Kerala) Kabbalist Nehemiah Ben Abraham Mota was rumoured to have the power of levitation. This film assembles the ruinous remnants of the places where these and other miracles occurred. His legacy are a series of wedding songs precariously assembled and archived, danced to by an interfaith following who worship him as a village deity. Using celluloid processed by hand, wedding songs is a collaboration with Mota’s light and the body of the film.

This film is an in-camera portrait of the place Ville Marie Royal Bank Building in Montréal.

A series of cinematic portraits shot in domestic spaces in a former gold mining town in New Zealand expand into a tapestry of glistening natural light and vaporous movement, created via a painstaking process of in-camera layering effects.