CHRISTIAN LEBRAT: VIBRATIONS
Christian Lebrat, born in 1952 in Paris, is an internationally acclaimed artist with a career spanning four decades. He is a filmmaker, video artist, performance artist and photographer, as well as a publisher, curator and writer. In 1985 he founded Paris Expérimental, a publishing company entirely devoted to publishing theoretical and historical texts on avant-garde and experimental cinema.
“My interest in color perhaps started with an exhibition that I saw. I had always been very interested in painting. One of the greatest emotions I’ve ever felt was in 1972, when I saw the Mark Rothko retrospective at the Grand Palais. That day – I still remember – I spent two hours in a single room of the exhibition, where there were four immense paintings that overwhelmed me with color; I was completely dumbstruck – transformed, even – by the contact I had with these works. It was then that I discovered the power of color.”
– Christian Lebrat
This DVD edition entitled VIBRATIONS, brings together 9 key moving image works created by the filmmaker over a ten-year period (1976-1985). Each film focus on an aspect of his experimentation with the use of color in cinema. The publication is accompanied by a 39-page booklet that includes an artist’s statement; an interview with the filmmaker by Vincent Deville & Émeric de Lastens, in which Lebrat provides detailed explanations about his strategy in creating each film; and a filmography.
Contents
Format: DVD-PAL / Region 0
(No Regional Code); Inquire for downloadable DSL file/s
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VIBRATIONS
(France, 1976-1985)
Director: Christian Lebrat
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FILM NUMÉRO DEUX
(France, 1976)
• 4 minutes
• 16mm
• Color
• Sound
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COULEURS DÉLICIEUSES SUR FOND BLEU
(France, 1976)
• 9 minutes
• 16mm
• Color
• Sound
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ORGANISATION I
(France, 1977)
• 5 minutes
• 16mm
• Color (yellow-red-blue)
• Sound
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LIMINAL MINIMAL I ET II
(France, 1977)
• 17 minutes
• 16mm
• Performances for two projectors
• Sound
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RÉSEAUX
(France, 1978)
• 8 minutes
• 16mm
• Color
• Sound
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TRAMA
(France, 1978-1980)
• 10 minutes
• 16mm
• Color
• Sound
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AUTOPORTRAIT AU DISPOSITIF
(France, 1981)
• 9 minutes
• 16mm
• Black & Green
• Sound
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HOLON
(France, 1981-82)
• 13 minutes
• 16mm
• Color
• Sound
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LE MOTEUR DE L'ACTION (A.M.D)
(France, 1985)
• 8
• 16mm
• B&W
• Sound
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Total Running Time: 01:21:00
Booklet Text: Christian Lebrat, Vincent Deville & Émeric de Lastens (Bilingual English & French)
Published By: Re:Voir Video
Institutional Price: $250 (plus shipping), Digital File Download $500
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