Érik Bullot
Birth : , Soissons, Aisne, France
History
Since completing his studies at the National School of Photography in Arles and the Institute for Advanced Film Studies (IDHEC) in Paris, Érik Bullot (born in 1963) has directed numerous films that lie midway between documentary and experimental film. His approach as a filmmaker explores cinema’s formal and poetic forces. His work has been screened nationally and internationally, including the Jeu de Paume (Paris), the Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva), CCCB (Barcelona), Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires). He is a regular contributor to the review “Trafic”. His catalog Erik Bullot (Paris: Léo Scheer, 2003) is accompanied by a DVD and includes an essay by Jacques Aumont. His most recent books are Le Film et son double (Geneva: Mamco, 2017) and Roussel et le cinéma (Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Place, 2020). He was visiting professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo (2009-11). He teaches film at the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges (France).
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Composed 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.
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Inspired 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.
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Can 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?
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A 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.
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« 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.
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“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.
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“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.
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Train 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?"
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Cinematography
The 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.
Director
The 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.
