Alexandre Larose

Alexandre Larose

History

Alexandre Larose is a French-Canadian artist based in Montreal. While completing a bachelor in mechanical engineering in 2001, Larose became interested in cinematography as a tool to re-configure temporal experiences. His moving-image practice investigates phenomena of appearance and representation as translated by the media of optics and celluloid. His approach relies on a methodical stripping out of layers embedded in both the live subjects and the technique that translates them into visual artifacts. His work has screened internationally since 2006.

Profile

Alexandre Larose

Movies

I. / II. / III.
Director
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.
III.
Director
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.
Le Vestibule
Director
Short film by Alexandre Larose
Saint Bathans Repetitions
Director
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.
Les brigands de l'hôtel bleu
Director of Photography
Brouillard #19
Director
A black-and-white reversal film shot on 35mm.
Brouillard #16
Director
A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.
Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
Brouillard #14
Director
Alexandre Larose creates supernally spectral superimpositions infused with a meteorological mix and the intense lusciousness of the Québec landscape.
Sackville Marshwalk
Director
Short experimental film by Alexandre Larose
Ville Marie B - Mosaique #3
Director
Short film by Alexandre Larose
Brouillard #12
Director
A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.
Brouillard #13
Director
A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.
Brouillard #15
Director
“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
Rue De La Montagne
Director
A silent film by Alexandre Larose.
Brouillard #2-12-6
Director
A color reversal compilation shot on 35mm..
Anticipation #4
Director
Festival 2011 (13th edition of the Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas of Paris): Anticipation # 4 by Alexandre Larose.
Brouillard #6
Director
A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.
Brouillard #5
Director
A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.
Brouillard #2
Director
A colour reversal film shot on 35mm. https://vimeo.com/71327099
La grande dame
Director
This film is an in-camera portrait of the place Ville Marie Royal Bank Building in Montréal.
Ville Marie
Director
Someone dreams of falling from a building.
Brouillard #1
Director
A colour reversal film shot on s8mm.
J.
Director
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.
Fenêtres
Director
"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
ARTIFICES #1
Cinematography
Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.
ARTIFICES #1
Editor
Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.
ARTIFICES #1
Director
Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.
Evening Movie
Director
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.
930
Editor
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.
930
Cinematography
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.
930
Director
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.
Le Corps Humain
Editor
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.
Le Corps Humain
Cinematography
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.
Le Corps Humain
Director
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.
II.
Director
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.
I.
Director
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.
chute #9a
Director
Part of Larose's "Ville Marie - B" short film cycle.
chute #9b
Director
Part of Larose's "Ville Marie - B" short film cycle.
Sackville Music Hall
Director
a short film by Solomon Nagler & Alexandre Larose