Olivier Fouchard

A silent multicoloured explosion. Hand-painted, it is evocative of stained-glass windows and could serve as a posthumous tribute to Stan Brakhage's memorable "Chartres Series".

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"Aubrac-Rushes is a video of re-filmed images, which we watch as if flicking through a sketchbook of drawings executed in pencil, charcoal, graphite ... These "sketches" were snatched from real life during a stay in Aubrac with Martine ROUSSET and Mahine ROUHI in January 2007. Some fragments of these promenades are also fossilized in silver photographic emulsion ... "Erratic and restless - we stumble into the shots - which search for their lost path - the broken trajectory of a nowhere landscape - the brief and obstinate rhythm of a searching gaze - a real quest: where to go from here? M. Rousset

A grand and mythical landscape tries to get rid of its past. A cleansing, a rebirth on celluloid. - IFFR

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Two bodies, or rather, two women hiding in the darkness. Sometimes they light each other up, sometimes they play hide and seek in the half-light. Both fireflies and butterflies, they start surprising nights choreographies that we only see in fragments. At the end their bodies get closer, in the dark, hesitating, sometimes backwards during a lively and retained dance. Yes, that night she danced, but did they really meet? The real film still has to be done.

A silent multicoloured explosion. Hand-painted, it is evocative of stained-glass windows and could serve as a posthumous tribute to Stan Brakhage's memorable "Chartres Series".

No synopsis available yet.

"Aubrac-Rushes is a video of re-filmed images, which we watch as if flicking through a sketchbook of drawings executed in pencil, charcoal, graphite ... These "sketches" were snatched from real life during a stay in Aubrac with Martine ROUSSET and Mahine ROUHI in January 2007. Some fragments of these promenades are also fossilized in silver photographic emulsion ... "Erratic and restless - we stumble into the shots - which search for their lost path - the broken trajectory of a nowhere landscape - the brief and obstinate rhythm of a searching gaze - a real quest: where to go from here? M. Rousset

A grand and mythical landscape tries to get rid of its past. A cleansing, a rebirth on celluloid. - IFFR

No synopsis available yet.

Two bodies, or rather, two women hiding in the darkness. Sometimes they light each other up, sometimes they play hide and seek in the half-light. Both fireflies and butterflies, they start surprising nights choreographies that we only see in fragments. At the end their bodies get closer, in the dark, hesitating, sometimes backwards during a lively and retained dance. Yes, that night she danced, but did they really meet? The real film still has to be done.

Images of sounds. Resynchronisation attempt during film print.

This film is designed to be unwound on a reel and read through the film (light table). Can also be projected.

"A form emerging from the cinematographic material paces mountain trails. Singular irruption that disappears and blends into nature and its representation. There is no more separation, or so little, between being and the world, yet irreconcilable. The voice is tense, it becomes this arc between nature and the character that seems to bring back to the surface of the screen cinematic flashes forever forgotten. The film of Mahine ROUHI convokes other times which inscribe the transition from one state (psychic, physical) to another. These changes occur at different speeds, on different emulsions according to various treatments. The plasticity that results is not the least quality of this film that revives the mythopoetic cinema. " Yann BEAUVAIS .

In Le Granier, the earth is living, is suffering and is full of history. The still camera shows a tired mountain which seems to hide a sacred secret. These telluric landscapes transfigured by Fouchard's manipulations on the image (animation techniques, toning, etc.) of a great plasticity, tell the history of this mountain populated with incantations, and its belonging to this wild nature.

Experimental short

This is a short film edited with excerpts from the film ASTRES ET DÉSASTRES (2023-24). The 16mm and 35mm scans were produced by Light Cone as part of a residency at the Atelier 105.

Experimental short by Olivier Fouchard.

THE SECRET is a fiction assembled from a heterogeneous collage of fragments downloaded online.

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The images of this "handcrafted and DIY" film were either recovered or filmed by me. Originally in black and white, they were brutally treated in photographic toning chemistries before being re-filmed with expired film. The soundtrack has undergone the same kind of treatment: the sound is made with old vinyl records, diamond on the edge ...

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The pace of the film, step by step, sometimes blind, sometimes radiant, a one-way ticket, long before or after the story itself, brings the image to fruition. Like a mineral, enigmatic, a fragment of an ancient language.

Solar flares, eclipses, and explosions hand-painted directly onto the negative. The film was slowed down using a Truca and developed at the laboratory of the association MIRE (Nantes) during a residency.

This little film is the recalibrated edit of a small reel of kodachrome 40 super 8 which has been abandoned in a damp corner in a cinema in Brussels since 1996. Scanned in 2021 then stripped of its magnetic soundtrack, the small spool reveals unknown and delicate colorful beauties.

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"Yâd: the memory. Childhood memory strucks by the war. The adult finds comfort and support rapt of contemplation over wild landscapes and sings life in a hardly murmured pain..."

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Selfportrait. Video without computer. Sound but silent (no speakers). Pain can express itself by a visual shriek, and no words.

In FANTÔMES, Olivier FOUCHARD brings a new variation to the genre film, he invents the "cinematheque film".

A blazingly hot film, painted by hand in the summer heat.

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"The gesture of making a film is as simple as that of appropriating what one has at hand, including the old principle of recovery that is practiced here shamelessly (...)".

July, 14th, 1789, then 1989 and its media coveraged bicentenary. Here a 16mm July 14th in order to wake up the sleepers and to tell them that the revolution is not only a party... This film has to be screened while assistants, projectionists, usherettes, cashiers, festivals directors, audience... throw big and little firecrackers everywhere in the room... regardless of safety rules, security rules... The filmmaker declines to be responsable for any possible accident. Watch out: explosive film.

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Experimental short by Olivier Fouchard.

This short film was recorderd during a japanese experimental film screening at the 102. Shot in Fuji Single 8. According to the filmmaker, the real purpose of JAPANESE 102 was to film his friends and play with possible meeting chances between sound and image.

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Experimental filmic exercise: analyzes the sun rays with the «eyes shut» vision and with «blinking» eye lids. This «hallucinative mechanic» is also symbolic and intends to celebrate a Revolution, that of the earth around the sun...

9,5>16 is with no doubt the achievement of film researches conducted ten years ago on «rayograms» (see Man Ray's «ciné-rayogrammes») and researches on «table printing». 9,5>16 is a pure «rayogram» film, without any figurative pattern, maybe realized in «rayogram» by a experienced cameraman thanks to one or two reels, 9,5mm leader, B&W 16mm printing film (Kodak 7302 or equivalent) and with the sparkle of an empty lighter. "9,5>16" ? "9 1/2" ! It seems to me it is necessary to clarify this to avoid misunderstandings.

This little film was blown up from Super 8 to 16mm Kodachrome, and was shot frame by frame on the balcony of the 15th floor of the Bourcry tower. This was during one of the Preview Shows at Light Cone when a violent storm in Paris transformed day into night. When I got home, the water had seeped into my camera, rendering it definitively out of order.

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Double tribute and double pillage, image & sound Images pilfered from Steven Woloshen Music nicked from Lucio Bukowski

Carrion Remember the object we saw, my soul, This beautiful summer morning so sweet: At the bend of a path an infamous carrion On a bed strewn with pebbles, Legs in the air, like a lustful woman, Scorching and sweating poisons, Opened in a nonchalant and cynical way Her belly full of excitement. The sun shone on this rot, As in order to cooked to perfection, And to give back to great Nature a hundredfold Everything she had joined together ... - And yet you will be like this garbage, To this horrible infection, Star of my eyes, sun of my nature, You, my angel and my passion! Yes ! such you will be, O queen of graces, After the last rites, When you go, under the grass and the lush flowers, Mold among the bones. Amors, oh my beauty! tell the vermin Who will eat you with kisses, That I kept the divine form and essence Of my decomposed loves!