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by Olivier FOUCHARD
2023-2025 / 16mm & 35mm & Video / color / sound / 1S / 16' 40
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THE FRAMES OF HIGH CIRCLES
(edit 5, sound)
a film by Olivier Fouchard, 2025
This is a short film edited with excerpts from the film "ASTRES ET DÉSASTRES" (STARS AND DISASTERS), 2023-24.
The 16mm and 35mm scans were produced by LIGHT CONE as part of a residency at Atelier 105.
When film becomes an interface between the painter's gesture and digital video, anything can happen; the music lover's ear stretches the rhythm of this endless quest for "FRAMES" and "CIRCLES"...
Olivier Fouchard,
in Saint-Maurice-des-Lions, April 29, 2025
This film is full of visual fascination. There are different levels of visual discourse, from 1) the rapid dancing of scratch-marks and fragments to 2) the alternation or mingling of different layouts at moving-picture speed, and 3) the slower development of themes. When frozen at random times, many frames look like abstract compositions. Thus the change of frames is constantly tantalizing. The surface is sometimes organized into rows of modules, and sometimes into clusters of abstract collage. There is a theme of alternation---- red vs. blue lights, modules versus clusters. Different colors had different personalities. For example, the blue lights varied in saturation and shape, yet they remained within the realm of light. The green light tended to be compromised by granular detail, like a digitally manipulated swatches taken from nature photos. Pale blue tended to appear during a transition from the blue-red scheme to the green-yellow scheme. I noticed the theme of decomposition. There was an intermittent grid that kept returning, but it gradually became cluttered with rubble, until the grid motif broke down totally somewhere near the film's halfway point. The second half of the film changes to a circular theme. The cellular circle is kinetic, due to small spheres swimming about within it. Due to the constant exchange of positions among the different-colored organelles, the circle becomes a generator for different color combinations. The teeming, pullulating organelles are barely contained by their membrane. Sometime the movement of the organelles becomes too chaotic and the circle is clogged with rubble. Sometimes the distinct organelles give way to shimmering patterns. Sometimes the teeming dance of organelles comes back. But as the end of the film nears, the cellular theme also seems to be winding down. I enjoyed the series of abstract images that only presented themselves at the moment of disappearance.
Denis Mair
1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
Digital file on server (FHD) |
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screen |
16/9 (single screen) |
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speed |
23,976 fps |
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sound |
sound |
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original language |
French |
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rental fee |
70,00 € |
