PERF-FILM 1
(ou Perfilm / PERF 1)

by Olivier FOUCHARD
1996-2022 / 4K & Super 8 / color / sound / 1 screen / 2' 45

"Perf-Film 1" or "Perfilm" or "PERF 1" / Olivier Fouchard 1996-2022

Olivier Fouchard's short film, dated 2022, places at the center what usually remains on the margins, namely the perforations in the film that allow the film to move and the image to remain fixed.

The perforation becomes the magical, almost white screen, like the projection of a film without images, where the action takes place around it, on the margins, within the borders surrounding the frame...
(...)
PERF 1 is like the perforations that puncture the screen, to the delight of our jaded retinas and eardrums.

Stefano Ceccarelli
05-02-2023

This version #1 of PERF or Perf-Film 1 is an experimental montage that served as the final cut of "PERF," where the "screen" (the void of digital perforation) is artificially colored. Here in "Perf-Film 1," this screen metaphor remains white, like "empty." The borders outside the frame are colored, as if the colored animated film were on the margins, almost like a dreamlike painting by Pierre Alechinsky.

Olivier Fouchard, at SMDL on June 30, 2025

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distribution format Digital file on server (HD)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
original language French
rental fee 23,00 €