
Directing
Érik Bullot
Place of birth
Soissons, Aisne, France
Known for
Directing
Credits
24 titles
Érik Bullot is a filmmaker and theorist. His films have been screened at numerous festivals and museums, such as the Jeu de Paume (Paris), La Enana Marrón (Madrid), the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Geneva), the CCCB, the New Museum (New York), the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires and the Cineteca Nacional de Chile, among others, as well as forming part of several collections: Centre Pompidou (Paris), Departmental Contemporary Art Collection (Seine Saint-Denis) and Xcèntric (Barcelona). He has recently exhibited at MUCEM (Marseille) and ISELEP (Brussels). He has published several books on film, including: Sayat Nova (Yellow Now, 2007), Renversements 1 & 2. Notes sur le cinéma (Pari…
Known for
NRThe principle of the film l'Ébranlement is twofold, based on the visual approximation of two distant terms (fencing and fireworks) and on a principle of expenditure (the possible engendering of one by the other). Images of fireworks are edited in echo to shots of a fencing duel, situated in a perforated architecture, with arcades (the Vieille Charité, in Marseille), which multiplies the incessant passages from shadow to light. At the moment of the clash (the point of the foil touching the opponent's body), the fireworks unfold as if the contact was established - an explosion, an epidemic mode of contamination by successive stings, point by point. The touch of the foil answers the blaze of the sky. As soon as the sky darkens, after the last spikes of light are extinguished, the fencing duel can be resumed, like a carillon or an automatic game. The attack is a flash of lightning that sets the collar on fire.
L’Ébranlement
1997
10.0« How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? » A tongue twister is a sentence with much alliterations and is complicated to pronounce. A tongue twister must be spoken quickly and repeated a few times. Langage breaks down between and meaning. This film is a linguistic game between sound and meaning and a portrait of the linguistic reality of Berkeley. Many American people recite tongue twisters in diffrent languages and/or in English as second language : German, Englsih, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Mandarin, Korean, Croatian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japonese, Farsi, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese.
Tongue Twisters
2011
NRThis film shows Perejaume walking with his hands filled with paint from his atelier, Can Basuny in Olzinelles, to the Museu de Pintura in Sant Pol de Mar. The time of action is basically what it takes for the paint to dry, and is referenced in the title of the piece. Matter, time and nature of painting, all come together in this work, depicting from how paint is used to its final shape as an object deposited in a museum.
Séchage
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NRA sly investigation of language and its links to cultural identity, Érik Bullot’s documentary looks at the repercussions of Turkey’s rapid removal of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet in 1928.
The Alphabet Revolution
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Trois faces
2008
NRThis film lists language discrepancies. Speaking backwards, listening to world radios, conversing in different languages, writing a coded message, signing, calligraphy, singing in Esperanto, praying in tongues, speaking imaginary languages are some of the actions of this curious encyclopedia.
Glossolalie
2005
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.0Composed of images and music produced with artificial intelligence, The Dream of Abel Gance explores the poetic imagination of filmmaker Abel Gance through his "crystal-house"—a hybrid space serving as a laboratory, film studio, and neural realm. Inspired by his writings on cinema, the film weaves a virtual temporality that allows us to envision the filmmaker’s forgotten utopias and dreams. The archive has become speculative, breathing new life into the long-standing promises of the Seventh Art.
Le Rêve d'Abel Gance
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Relations d'objets
2025
Behind the camera
NRThe principle of the film l'Ébranlement is twofold, based on the visual approximation of two distant terms (fencing and fireworks) and on a principle of expenditure (the possible engendering of one by the other). Images of fireworks are edited in echo to shots of a fencing duel, situated in a perforated architecture, with arcades (the Vieille Charité, in Marseille), which multiplies the incessant passages from shadow to light. At the moment of the clash (the point of the foil touching the opponent's body), the fireworks unfold as if the contact was established - an explosion, an epidemic mode of contamination by successive stings, point by point. The touch of the foil answers the blaze of the sky. As soon as the sky darkens, after the last spikes of light are extinguished, the fencing duel can be resumed, like a carillon or an automatic game. The attack is a flash of lightning that sets the collar on fire.
L’Ébranlement
1997
10.0« How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? » A tongue twister is a sentence with much alliterations and is complicated to pronounce. A tongue twister must be spoken quickly and repeated a few times. Langage breaks down between and meaning. This film is a linguistic game between sound and meaning and a portrait of the linguistic reality of Berkeley. Many American people recite tongue twisters in diffrent languages and/or in English as second language : German, Englsih, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Mandarin, Korean, Croatian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japonese, Farsi, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese.
Tongue Twisters
2011
NRThis film shows Perejaume walking with his hands filled with paint from his atelier, Can Basuny in Olzinelles, to the Museu de Pintura in Sant Pol de Mar. The time of action is basically what it takes for the paint to dry, and is referenced in the title of the piece. Matter, time and nature of painting, all come together in this work, depicting from how paint is used to its final shape as an object deposited in a museum.
Séchage
—
NRA sly investigation of language and its links to cultural identity, Érik Bullot’s documentary looks at the repercussions of Turkey’s rapid removal of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet in 1928.
The Alphabet Revolution
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Trois faces
2008
NRThis film lists language discrepancies. Speaking backwards, listening to world radios, conversing in different languages, writing a coded message, signing, calligraphy, singing in Esperanto, praying in tongues, speaking imaginary languages are some of the actions of this curious encyclopedia.
Glossolalie
2005
NR“The sound is the ape of the light”, wrote Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher. Can the laws of optics be transposed to the world of sound? Can one see the sound? Through relationships between image and sound, voice and music, noise and performance, the film “The Ape of Light” shows a series of actions freely inspired from lesson-books and treatises on acoustics.
The Ape of Light
2002
6.0Composed of images and music produced with artificial intelligence, The Dream of Abel Gance explores the poetic imagination of filmmaker Abel Gance through his "crystal-house"—a hybrid space serving as a laboratory, film studio, and neural realm. Inspired by his writings on cinema, the film weaves a virtual temporality that allows us to envision the filmmaker’s forgotten utopias and dreams. The archive has become speculative, breathing new life into the long-standing promises of the Seventh Art.
Le Rêve d'Abel Gance
2025
6.0Composed of images and music produced with artificial intelligence, The Dream of Abel Gance explores the poetic imagination of filmmaker Abel Gance through his "crystal-house"—a hybrid space serving as a laboratory, film studio, and neural realm. Inspired by his writings on cinema, the film weaves a virtual temporality that allows us to envision the filmmaker’s forgotten utopias and dreams. The archive has become speculative, breathing new life into the long-standing promises of the Seventh Art.
Le Rêve d'Abel Gance
2025
7.2Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
Language of Birds
2022
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Les Noces chymiques
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Les Noces chymiques
1999
NRCrossing a wave, drawings in the form of a maze, the games of a child with his mother, the bamboo forest, the races in the burnt grass, the snow in winter, the flowers in the light, the trees in bloom in spring, the walk under the trees, the sunrise, the clouds. After the Calculation of the subject and Oh oh oh! , this film is the third part of a filmed diary which follows, step by step, the seasons of a child.
La Belle Étoile
2004
NRA hedgehog in the light, the shadows of a hand on a round belly, a bouquet of carnations, a bowl of tangerines, the bathing of an infant under a medlar tree, the jumps in his mother's arms, the first steps in the grass, bus rides, flowering trees, the child's runs in the countryside, shy glances at the camera, the return of the seasons, the shadows of palm trees, still lifes, laughter and shopping. This film is the filmed diary of a child's first three years.
Le Calcul du Sujet
2000
NRTravel diary filmed in Tamaris (near Toulon), Istanbul and Marseille, “Le Manteau de Michel Pacha” is a film-essay on exoticism. How can exoticism persist beneath the documentary? Between the imagery and the experience of travel, the numerous filmed portraits experience the fixity of a mental image. “The civil war replaced exoticism”: this film abruptly intersects with History.
Le Manteau de Michel Pacha
1996
NRA variation on paroptic vision (the ability to see with the skin, without the aid of the eyes), telepathy, colour theory and the theremin. The various sequences introduce the hypothesis of an imaginary cinema. The film is presented as a series of rushes, suggesting an unfinished film in progress.
Fragments pour un film imaginaire
2023
NRThe face of a child in the light, the run in the grass, the columns of a Roman temple, the looks and the smiles, the trip to Italy, the windows of a train in the mountains, the variations of the light, the Pacific Ocean. The film is the second part of a filmed diary started with the Calculation of the subject which follows the steps of a child since his birth. The film is the second part of a filmed diary started with Calculating the Subject that follows the steps of a child since birth.
Oh oh oh !
2002
NRInspired by the world of the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Le Quator ambigu presents a series of poetic and visionary paintings in which four young women, inspired by the artists Meret Oppenheim, Bona, Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini, engage in writing and divination, recalling the feminine part in the elaboration of the writer's work.
Le quatuor ambigu
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Relations d'objets
2025
NRCan we take a film back, propose a new version of it in order to update its promises and unfulfilled injunctions? Can we refresh a film, as we say of a computer screen? One can for example say the film, tell its manufacture and its hazards during a conference. Traité d'optique is a film conference that questions the conditions of possibility of a film revival by crossing material culture and utopia, media archaeology and family narrative, about a study film made in 1987. If the conference sometimes replaces the film, can the film itself be a conference?
Traité d'optique
2017
NRA short story from Les Enfantines by Valery Larbaud, La Grande époque , describes the imaginary countries crossed by children in a undoubtedly tiny garden.
Le Jardin chinois
1990
NRTrain travel, sky maps observed with a magnifying glass, dance on a wire, spinning tops, attractions, rides, terrestrial globe, discs, dance, Luna Park, big night wheel, fireworks, bungee jumping make up various sequences that evoke Newtonian physics and cause spinning and dizziness. "Escaping from gravitation, defying gravity, defeating the circular march of bodies in space, are we able today to achieve a new revolution?"
L'attraction universelle
2000
