NICOLAS PROVOST - RETROSPECTIVES AND FESTIVALS

Nicolas Provost’s oeuvre, shown with notable success at international film festivals in recent years, has been described as a working-off of the filmic codes of narrative cinema. Indeed, his experiments with found footage, revolving around the clichés and conventions of the Hollywood mainstream; along with his short fictional films, which try the structural limits of the genre, range between the re-presentation of a canon and its subversive dismantlement. They astound due to the relative simplicity of the formal interventions and the obviousness of the sources from which he draws. He plays, or so it seems, a game with open cards. The particular visual pleasure derived from his works seems to result from their direct visceral impact, rather more than the intellectual riddles involving the viewer as to the material employed or the process of their rearrangement. His practise is one of aesthetic detournement, which appropriates forms and formulas in order to submit them to a playful process of distorsion, masking and displacement and ultimately to turn them into a highly visceral experience.

Retrospectives:
04.01.2011 - 12.02.2011
Festival du Court Metrage
Clermont-Ferrand (France)
www.clermont-filmfest.com

Bataille. 2003, 7’18", b&w, sound.
Papillon D’Amour. 2003, 3’30", b&w, sound.
Oh Dear…. 2004, 1’, colour, sound.
Exoticore. 2004, 27’36", colour, English spoken, English subtitles.
Suspension. 2007, 4’27", colour and b&w, silent.
Gravity. 2007, 6’7", colour and b&w, sound.
Plot Point. 2007, 13’39", colour, sound.
Long Live the New Flesh. 2009, 14’, colour, English spoken.

16.02.2011 - 26.02.2011
XIII European Short Film Festival (Spain)
Cambrils and Reus (Spain)
www.fecfestival.com

Papillon D’Amour. 2003, 3’30", b&w, sound.
Exoticore. 2004, 27’36", colour, English spoken, English subtitles.
Suspension. 2007, 4’27", colour and b&w, silent.
Gravity. 2007, 6’7", colour and b&w, sound.
Plot Point. 2007, 13’39", colour, sound.
Long Live the New Flesh. 2009, 14’, colour, English spoken.
Stardust. 2010, 20’, video, colour, English spoken.

16.03.2011 - 23.03.2011
Regensburg Short Film Week
Regensburg (Germany)
www.regensburger-kurzfilmwoche.de

Need any help?. 1999, 6’55", colour, English spoken.
I hate this town. 2002, 2’, colour, sound.
Papillon D’Amour. 2003, 3’30", b&w, sound.
Exoticore. 2004, 27’36", colour, English spoken, English subtitles.
The Divers. 2006, 6’40", colour, sound.
Gravity. 2007, 6’7", colour and b&w, sound.
Long Live the New Flesh. 2009, 14’, colour, English spoken.
Plot Point. 2007, 13’39", colour, sound.
Stardust. 2010, 20’, video, colour, English spoken.

Works in competitions at Festivals:
Storyteller
04.01.2011 - 12.02.2011
Festival du Court Metrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France)
www.clermont-filmfest.com

Stardust
20.01.2011 - 30.01.2011
Sundance Film Festival 2011 (USA)
www.sundance.org

26.01.2011 - 06.02.2011
International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

04.01.2011 - 12.02.2011
Festival du Court Metrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France)
www.clermont-filmfest.com