Carole Contant

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A chronicle of the fantasies and dream of women in avant-garde contemporary cinema. The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of avant-garde cinema.

A collaborative film of the Pom Pom Pom party of October 25, 2004

A film edited in camera and shot for the project "une bobine" on April 28, 2005 - the expected date of our son's birth.

Zones césariennes (which covers the year 2002) is one of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot on film. These episodes now coexist with their counterparts filmed on videotape. They are two films with parallel lives but opposing destinies, colliding and eyeing each other warily. They represent two approaches, two styles, two different ways of understanding cinema. Two methods for unfolding time, grasping memory, and exploring the world.

Burkina new year muslim ritual, otherwise known as the sheep fair. Ouagadougou, March 2nd 2001. This film followed the September 2001 criteria: the great feast of short films.

A red hat in gestation, threads like ropes knitted by grandmother's bows. sound creation by Pierre-Olivier Boulant This film followed the constraint of June 2005: a little adulterated film.

and your duvet, how do you make your duvet? while trying to hang up the wagons of Le Beurre and La Vaisselle, my two previous quirks; or a totally inappropriate operation! This film followed the constraints September 2006, November 2006, January 2006: a small film in 3 stages

I was with Rose when I discovered this flowery underwear for 1€ at the Place Jean Jaurès market in Marseille. Roselyne Roche had begun to make films in Super 8 well before me. I dedicate this short film in pink, red, black and white to Rose. I made it for her with me, named it ‘A Rose’ for the circumstances. This film followed the December 2003 criteria: a short film for giving.

Oh Didon Énée ! film letter number 2116, an answer to colas ricard letter number 916.

I was 25 years old August 16th 1999 in Connemara, South Ireland. Road movie whilst the clouds and the rest of time pass by. This film followed the December 2000 criteria: a passing through film.

Flowers blossoming in the Parisian metro, call to freedom which waltzes in a melancholic tango and searches for innocence in urban unconcern. This film followed the October 2000 criteria: short film without aim.

met Laila at the art video festival in Casablanca in March 2000, it is the first time that I am friends with a woman who prays for Allah. Six months later she marries my brother Christophe.

An echo of the ‘waltz’, a mysterious apparition, a nocturnal trace of a lover’s way around Parc Monceau, surrounded by buildings, where there is a rock without lips to kiss. A bid for freedom on the base of a languorous waltz mixed with the declaration of African independence. So, is Roc an echo of Su?

Obvious, well before the 1914 war, freedom is in danger! Friends! From poetry what the devil! Come on music! This film followed the September 2002 criteria: a short film with a soundtrack and from February and April 2002: a short political film in two parts. Sound creation: April 2003 with Jean Cocteau’s voices to ‘The Great War.’

Fruit market, shopkeeper's market? I walked in the streets of the Golden Drop, not chained which begins as the last potential painting of the triptych of toured-mounted dances Valse and Roc except that they also follow in the footsteps of Pierre Merejkowsky and Frédéric Lemaître until less than a minute of silence. This film followed the constraint of June 2005: a short film based on a text from the JIC (Journal Intime Collectif).

O, o fille de l'o (2003/2004 - super 8 shot and edited in color, 3’54) In the river of a work started around the letters of my first name C A R O L E, which flows to the ear like some of the clear natural elements, this film follows a Lettrist tributary. The images from this lake of words plunge from the R into the O, onto the L of a boat, Afloat. "O, c the water and the Bird, therefore O is the air, the R of nothing.“ This film followed the constraints of July / August 2003 with the image: a small film with the flow of water & sound creation of March 2003: a small film which plays with the words with the appearance of Éliane Raymond at the Geneva Science Fair.

During my journey there are encounters of everyday music. My neighbour’s cello, my flatmate’s voice mixes with piano tuners. If we walk around, the Romanian Circus gipsy dances take over the street and Paris livens up with the sunny pace of a town with ocean reflections, however ignored by the local children.

Vampirical cry from the voice of the piano….or, when inspiration came in a dream. This film followed the criteria for April 2000 and June 2003: a short boys’ film and a mute film respectively.

Christophe rolls, nicknamed cristobal, crycry, from now on cristobulle, has not succeeded in making a big bubble with his Malabar:’ cristobulle-malabule-malhabile…’This film followed the January 2004 criteria: a short film about nothing.