NICOLAS PROVOST AT FESTIVAL DU COURT MÉTRAGE DE NAMUR AND THE 27TH TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Nicolas Provost is presenting on the Festival du Court Métrage de Namur a programme of six of his own films plus two works by two filmmakers – Jacques Themalque and Jan De Bruin – he founds particularly influential for his own work. In November, Provost is also one of the artists that will show a retrospective of their works at the 27th Torino Film Festival. The works of Nicolas Provost can be seen as cinematic experiences as much as they are poetic audiovisual paintings. They intend to walk on the fine line between dualities and balance between the grotesque and the moving, beauty and cruelty, the emotional and the intellectual, between cinema and fine arts. Time and again his phantasmagorias provoke both recognition and alienation and succeed in catching our expectations into an unravelling game of mystery and abstraction forcing the viewer to reflect on the phenomenon of the audiovisual. With manipulations of time, codes and form, cinematographic and narrative language is analysed, accents are shifted and new stories are told. Apart from the use of film and visual language, sound is also a constant factor in Provost’s body of work, as a rhythmical spine or an emotional guideline.

13.11.2009 - 17.11.2009
Programme Festival du Court Métrage de Namur

Exoticore. 2004, 27’ 36”, video, colour, English, Norwegian and Burkinabe spoken.
Induction. 2006, 7’, video, colour, sound.
Papillon d’amour. 2003, 3’ 30, video, b&w, sound.
Gravity. 2007, 6’07”, 35 mm, colour, sound.
Suspension. 2007, 4’27”, 35 mm, b&w, sound.
Plot Point. 2007, 13’39”, 35 mm, colour, sound. www.media10-10.be

21.11.2009
Programme 27th Torino Film Festival

Exoticore. 2004, 27’ 36”, video, colour, English, Norwegian and Burkinabe spoken.
Induction. 2006, 7’, video, colour, sound.
Papillon d’amour. 2003, 3’ 30, video, b&w, sound.
Gravity. 2007, 6’ 07”, 35 mm, colour, sound.
Suspension. 2007, 4’ 27”, 35 mm, b &w, sound.
Plot Point. 2007, 13’ 39”, 35 mm, colour, sound.
The Divers. 2006, 6’40”, video, sound
Need any help?. 1999, 6’ 55, Super 8, colour, English spoken.
I hate this town. 2002, 2’, video, colour, sound.
Oh Dear. 2004, 1’, video, colour, sound. www.torinofilmfest.org