Carole Contant

O, o fille de l'o (2003/2004 - super 8 shot and edited in color, 3’54) In the river of a work started around the letters of my first name C A R O L E, which flows to the ear like some of the clear natural elements, this film follows a Lettrist tributary. The images from this lake of words plunge from the R into the O, onto the L of a boat, Afloat. "O, c the water and the Bird, therefore O is the air, the R of nothing.“ This film followed the constraints of July / August 2003 with the image: a small film with the flow of water & sound creation of March 2003: a small film which plays with the words with the appearance of Éliane Raymond at the Geneva Science Fair.

Small letter fallen from a tree, small letter going towards somewhere else, fades away, hides, refuses the end, looks for M the image and sign. Like Little Let’ (like the character Letty in ‘The Wind’) finishes a love affair, hidden, Letty is small letters hidden under a pile of autumn leaves. This film followed the November 2003 criteria: a little letter. (alphabetical or correspondence)

A self-portrait turning around by foot after picking up fragments of myself from all around. Return home: accept that the only balance is movement. Contemplate serenity tourmented by this gay knowledge.

A chronicle of the fantasies and dream of women in avant-garde contemporary cinema. The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of avant-garde cinema.

A chronicle of the fantasies and dream of women in avant-garde contemporary cinema. The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of avant-garde cinema.

During my journey there are encounters of everyday music. My neighbour’s cello, my flatmate’s voice mixes with piano tuners. If we walk around, the Romanian Circus gipsy dances take over the street and Paris livens up with the sunny pace of a town with ocean reflections, however ignored by the local children.

A man is prostrate in front of his television, which projects the image of his wife when she possibly loved him.She is expecting his child but however accepts his homosexuality. The mental disorder of the husband leads him to rash acts. Time and space self-distruct around his discomfort. Self-produced with the Défi Jeunes competition and CROUS (grant).

Portrait of Blandine Beauvy (BB) reading black soap, a Francis Ponge book, and a Chomsky book.

Oh Didon Énée ! film letter number 2116, an answer to colas ricard letter number 916.

The secret is that there is no secret. A hymn to life scrambled by a dull and cold desire to reduce all cars to an omelette (angry with consumer society). This film followed the constraint of September 2004: a little secret film.

and your duvet, how do you make your duvet? while trying to hang up the wagons of Le Beurre and La Vaisselle, my two previous quirks; or a totally inappropriate operation! This film followed the constraints September 2006, November 2006, January 2006: a small film in 3 stages

A red hat in gestation, threads like ropes knitted by grandmother's bows. sound creation by Pierre-Olivier Boulant This film followed the constraint of June 2005: a little adulterated film.

intrauterine cavalcade… and after? Dada on my dad, dada on my dodo and Laïla's ponytail getting involved! This film followed the constraint of November 2004: a small film in black and white but not without color

Fruit market, shopkeeper's market? I walked in the streets of the Golden Drop, not chained which begins as the last potential painting of the triptych of toured-mounted dances Valse and Roc except that they also follow in the footsteps of Pierre Merejkowsky and Frédéric Lemaître until less than a minute of silence. This film followed the constraint of June 2005: a short film based on a text from the JIC (Journal Intime Collectif).

A collaborative film of the Pom Pom Pom party of October 25, 2004

A writing metaphor, playing with memory from the reading of "W or The childhood memory", Georges Perec book.

A spool of black thread passes over a white parquet with the sound of a sewing machine. This film followed the constraint of October 2004: a small film without color but not in black and white.

A film edited in camera and shot for the project "une bobine" on April 28, 2005 - the expected date of our son's birth.

The car wash evokes in our active memories the wheels of artisan looms; the film was shot, developed, washed and dried using traditional methods. Because this film was made during the 2004 summer holidays, it became a little road movie.

Christophe rolls, nicknamed cristobal, crycry, from now on cristobulle, has not succeeded in making a big bubble with his Malabar:’ cristobulle-malabule-malhabile…’This film followed the January 2004 criteria: a short film about nothing.

In French the title is a play on words and sound. As the wet finger goes around the circumference of a stemmed glass, feet reflect in a windowpane and turn around a circle painted behind me. A musical duo which looks for the harmony of an oval in a rectangle. Saturn, it turns, satellite-urn and further play on words and sounds.

I was with Rose when I discovered this flowery underwear for 1€ at the Place Jean Jaurès market in Marseille. Roselyne Roche had begun to make films in Super 8 well before me. I dedicate this short film in pink, red, black and white to Rose. I made it for her with me, named it ‘A Rose’ for the circumstances. This film followed the December 2003 criteria: a short film for giving.

Obvious, well before the 1914 war, freedom is in danger! Friends! From poetry what the devil! Come on music! This film followed the September 2002 criteria: a short film with a soundtrack and from February and April 2002: a short political film in two parts. Sound creation: April 2003 with Jean Cocteau’s voices to ‘The Great War.’

Dialect between derisory and necessity, vitamin A and bombs which rain down. Monochrome yellow cognitive (nazism’s jewish star, sunny light, fire, yellow disinfectant, where are your blues?) This film followed the May 2001 criteria: Do as you please in May.

Vampirical cry from the voice of the piano….or, when inspiration came in a dream. This film followed the criteria for April 2000 and June 2003: a short boys’ film and a mute film respectively.

An echo of the ‘waltz’, a mysterious apparition, a nocturnal trace of a lover’s way around Parc Monceau, surrounded by buildings, where there is a rock without lips to kiss. A bid for freedom on the base of a languorous waltz mixed with the declaration of African independence. So, is Roc an echo of Su?

met Laila at the art video festival in Casablanca in March 2000, it is the first time that I am friends with a woman who prays for Allah. Six months later she marries my brother Christophe.

Burkina new year muslim ritual, otherwise known as the sheep fair. Ouagadougou, March 2nd 2001. This film followed the September 2001 criteria: the great feast of short films.

In one day and night alone, a crowd of obstacles appears on a young tiger’s route, convinced that a plot is brewing. ‘Jungle Tale’: Young, dynamic manager caught in the trap of his Machiavellian everyday life, Shere Khan comes out of work and returns home. A considerable number of closed doors, narrow alleys slipping by in a cold light rise up against him. The statues also show in contrast, the emptiness of his hectic life. A man who is going to quickly lose himself. This film followed the criteria of November 2001: a short film with a striped synopsis.

Night-time, only moped, bicycle and car lights draw our silhouettes. Metabolic disruptions: we turn into cats and we think we are loving for the first and the last time (play on words in French: foi-faith/time). This film followed the August 2001 criteria: s short film bursting with sunshine.

Muslim baptism ritual with ‘a little something’ of an American Catholic touch. In the heart of the sun, they dance in unison in a strange and worrying native circle. The infant only appears at nightfall. This film followed the August 2001 criteria: a short woman’s film.

Flowers blossoming in the Parisian metro, call to freedom which waltzes in a melancholic tango and searches for innocence in urban unconcern. This film followed the October 2000 criteria: short film without aim.

I was 25 years old August 16th 1999 in Connemara, South Ireland. Road movie whilst the clouds and the rest of time pass by. This film followed the December 2000 criteria: a passing through film.

End of the game. Whilst doing the washing-up, we talk about all and sundry. It is cleansing. This film followed the May 2000 criteria: ‘Do as you please in May’.