De-Extinction

A sometimes very rapid montage of stills & short clips referencing aspects of filmmaking, as well as my own paintings on glass and photographs. So then -- a film about filmmaking, a dervish dance, a celebration of light, color, movement and all the charged beauty I was capable of then, or since. Super-8, silent, non-narrative. - Joseph Bernard

A good feast in the countryside.

Dramatic story of a man and a woman that had a short but passionate love story.

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering consisting of 292 photographs.

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering.

Untitled / Aubrac

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher and artist Claire Latxague. While collecting drawings, written documents and other printed materials for a (yet unreleased) project called Un film de papier, I’ve stumbled upon Latxague’s artwork, entitled À la renverse. The blow-ups were made in an attempt of unearthing cartographic imagery in abstract compositions.

ReZoning Love follows Violet, a twenty-something struggling with a rent increase and a low paying job, who meets a mysterious woman, D, who exposes her to a world beneath the surface of a screen.

Experimental short documentary

An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel, transmitting fragmentary, blurred and analogical memories. 

David struggles with the aftermath of a tragic accident and his innocent musings of feeling powerless slowly turn into a bizarre nightmare.

An experimental short film that evokes moments in the life of a man recreated through the magic of memory. Made from documents from various sources, this film is composed of several scenes: the stages of the day and of life between joy and carefree youth, the cruelty of the working world, the horror of war. The final result is put into perspective with the birth of a child, perpetuating the cycle of life.

color, silent, 8mm film

In an ironic reference to body art, process art and performance, Baldessari challenges definitions of the content and execution of art-making. Performing with deadpan precision, he moves his hands, arms and entire body in studied, minute motions, intoning the phrase "I am making art" with each gesture. Each articulation of the phrase is given a different emphasis and nuance, as if art were being created from moment to moment. This index of body movements is ironically offset by the repetitive monotony of the exercise.

Experimental video art set to the track "Place I Know/Kid Like You" by Arthur Russell.

An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat, showing these elements individually and then projecting them on top of each other.

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

Jørgen Leth's experimental take on Ophelia's madness scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

A non-existent frontier between digital, movies and reality: a screen inside a screen inside a screen. A teenage dream; a teenage life in the bush of ghosts.