Emmanuel Lefrant

Filmes

Per una selva oscura
Director
The revelation of an image, which progresses towards the heart of matter, captured in an incoercible movement: that of a dystopia in motion. A primitive entity on the brink of cataclysm, an infinite headlong rush, until all forms and figures are completely dissolved. What dark forest have we wandered into?
Parallaxe
Director
Performance for 4 mobile 16mm projectors, a triple screen, and a spatialized sound diffusion. Parallax – an effect by which the position of an object seems to change when it is looked at from different positions. Working on the concept of geometry and space in the cinema, from the planar space of the photogram to the stage of its representation, this project reveals a multi-faceted object. The different surfaces that circumscribe the screen, the movement of projectors on rails, the changes in projection angles and the simultaneous visions. Parallaxe emphasizes the transport of images and their ability to modify the perception that we have on a same reality. Associated with Michalis Moschoutis' direct sounding device, Nominoë's graphic images are deconstructed and their virtualities increased tenfold. Spatial sound diffusion immerses the audience in this multidimensional device, at once a movie set, movie theater and film.
I Don't Think I Can See an Island
Director
«A film of non-Euclidean and symbolically authentic adventures»
The Devastated Land
Director
Through a series of painstaking material interventions, Lefrant constructs a landscape where human dominance over the environment - defined as the age of the Anthropocene - is starkly visualised.
Parties visible et invisible d'un ensemble sous tension
Director
Africa, 2003: mechanisms of memory and recollection.
Blitz
Director
This is a deserted black space that one tries to fill in. To the point of becoming totally submerged in color. One explores the chromatic circle, by turning around it meticulously. And by vertical unreeling, a process specific to cinema.
Still Frames
Director
STILL FRAMES is a laboratory film, conceived while I was finishing SARABAN. Indeed the two films were produced from the same images. The aim was not only to prove that the same source of image can generate two different films but also to highlight the incidence of light on color.
All over
Director
Prior to any other treatment, the emulsion is covered with layers of chemical products, resulting in a black filmstrip. "The black leader can be anticipated as Malevitch's white painting: a space in which everything is possible, the space of absolute potentiality and virtuality." This is because cinema, contrary to painting, gives light to its own image, via the lamp projector. This is not about covering a blank surface with forms and colors since they already exist on the black film. Whilst ALL OVER is a film made without "instrumentation" (like a camera), it also differs from direct films in that the film remains untouched by any tool (not even the hand). As in dripping, materials and color are spontaneously laid down on the film in semi-controlled gestures, which create a shower of colored dots. The soundtrack functions according to the same principle: the sound, in all its expressions, is formed using one single formal element.
Underground
Director
Super 8mm / color / sound