Christian Lebrat Movies

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique...

First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a...

9 key moving image works created by filmmaker Christian Lebrat over a ten-year period (1976-1985). Each film focus on an aspect of his...

"In the 1990 text on his film Autoportrait au dispositif (1981), Lebrat wrote that all his films are in fact self-portraits, including those that are...

To come back to abstraction, I have a feeling that colour varies in my work between two aspects: the colour-object that comes from the sensation of...

"In Trama, Lebrat divides a surface vertically to be filmed in six equal segments of color (yellow, red, blue, green, violet, orange). The...

"I found that soundtrack abandonned on a shelf in an editing room. It had been hanging about there for a few weeks before I decided to listen to it....

Anamorphoses of television images combined with fragments from Jerome Bosch’s Garden of Delights painting.

First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a...

"A city, its crowds; crowds processed on film then transferred to video. I used a technique particular to video to manipulate a vertical section of...

Swallowed in the emptiness with a dull and gloomy noise, the face gradually vanishes with a recurring rocking motion.

The densest film of the divided-frame group is the aptly titled 1978 Networks, which includes as many as 20 exposures of the same roll of film. Here...

For the films in which Lebrat divided the screen he placed a piece of paper with one or more slits in it in front of the lens, allowing only a narrow...

Filmed unexpectedly on the port of Genoa, the jazz music resonates with the lights of the city. The video loop, multiplied and worked on during the...

This film is part of the Twenty Puccini Project."A cellist freely interprets a few famous themes from Puccini's La Bohème. A camera films the...

Filmed at night, with no manipulation. The hypnotic effect of the image, composed of abstracts motifs, in dialogue with the enigmatic sound track,...