Olivier Fouchard
Directing
Biography
Olivier Fouchard studied printing and tapistrey at the C R E A R school in Gouvieux dans l'Oise. During the beginning of the 1990s after having spent two years at an art school in Cambrai, France, he participated at a number of collectif and individual exhibitions. Since 1994, he has created a number of films and musique concrète videos. His films are distributed by experimental film co-operatives (Light Cone, Collectif Jeune Cinéma) and have been shown at a number of festivals and institutions. Since 1999, he makes films with Mahine Rouhi.
Known For
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Journal Vidéo 23/05/1999
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N°9
This little film was blown up from Super 8 to 16mm Kodachrome, and was shot frame by frame on the balcony of the 15th floor of the Bourcry tower. This was during one of the Preview Shows at Light Cone when a violent storm in Paris transformed day into night. When I got home, the water had seeped into my camera, rendering it definitively out of order.
L'ORAGE - VERSION II
"Aubrac-Rushes is a video of re-filmed images, which we watch as if flicking through a sketchbook of drawings executed in pencil, charcoal, graphite ... These "sketches" were snatched from real life during a stay in Aubrac with Martine ROUSSET and Mahine ROUHI in January 2007. Some fragments of these promenades are also fossilized in silver photographic emulsion ... "Erratic and restless - we stumble into the shots - which search for their lost path - the broken trajectory of a nowhere landscape - the brief and obstinate rhythm of a searching gaze - a real quest: where to go from here? M. Rousset
Aubrac-Rushes
“Sketch XXX (work in progress)” in addition to its “poetic” and “political” content also brings the spectator to his capacity for revolt as an individual before being carried away by an obedient and non-thinking collective membership … The gradual erasure of our antagonistic individual-collective concepts will perhaps help us as individual-collective to imagine that perhaps all the elements of the living being connected this invalidates all “individualist” attempts.
Sketch XXX
Erotic and « sleepy » dreams...
Le tombeau d’Aphrodite, Version 7
Few years ago (1987 - 88), I've been "victim" of chronic hallucinations. In front of the mirror, I was able to see my face distorting itself and transforming in strange creatures which, however, looks like it. Variations Colorées / Spectres (Work in progress) is one more step in my cinematographic works set about the theme of self-portrait. This one, becomes pretext to formal experimentations evolving to abstraction.
Variations colorées / Spectres
Flea market found footage with sound from the French radio bought low priced at the Emmaüs of Grenoble in 1995. This film is about desire... And the desire of making films.
Que c'est bon...
"Days and nights" of work and rest in my flat set up as my workshop. For those who still believe that a free artistic activity (here the cinematograph) is not a kind of "work" (although this word's common meaning is at the very least darkened by suspect political considerations). Although "work" is not a "value" but at most a remainder of Judeo-Christian culpability (Adam and Eve driven out of the Eden and condemned to live of their work), it seems likely that human hyperactivity is effectively at the origin of this famous "reheating" of the planet. Thus, I conclude, so that this "work value" is a pretext for the capitalists to reduce the working classes to slavery and hence carry out their destroying madness. For my part, a moderate (artistic) activity helps me to keep in touch with my fellow humans and to maintain a "social" bond, the rest is only vanity...
Days and nights
These images are camera essays and exercises that Mahine had shot. This is also the portrait of director Birgit Schiemann whose face was demolished after she had been attacked in Georgia, than reconstituted with the help of plastic surgery. Images date from before the time of the aggression. Since then, we have lost contact... Dusty images have been thrown in a bin and then multiplied and, craftly, tell us about a time of the past, a lost time found again through film. The ghost of Brigit is now fixed in time, but is she still alive?
BIBI 1 + BIBI 2
This new version of LE GRANIER was made by assembling out-takes from the first version (LE GRANIER, PAYSAGE ETUDE N°1). Certain sequences of both versions were scratched and tinted (ie: the emulsion of the film was scratched and tinted); other sequences were hand processed and developed using a paintbrush under a darkroom red light. Finally, the hand-tinted negative was converted to positive using the Jaffeux technique.
The Granier, Version II
Self-portrait through a tour of the filmmaker's studio.
Coins d'atelier
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Autoportrait
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N°5
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Young Boys
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Short cuts in the kitchen
Directed by Olivier Fouchard.
Carnets D'ateliers
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Entretien avec Pierre Merejkowski, Les Inattendus 2004
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Spectre / Effacement / Disparition (Film expérience / fragilité)
"Art is like a spray of pollen, like life itself, my sole reward is to be understood by a handful of people" Jean COCTEAU 03/07/1948 in Les Entretiens sur le cinématographe (Interviews on Cinematography), Ed. Belford (Belford Press) Images harvested in Miles MCKANE's garden, with Mahine ROUHI, when we visited Nantes (for a projection of our film "Tahousse") in May 2007. Memories of a few happy and sun-filled moments in this little garden, both wild and well-ordered, where the beauty of the art of life leaves an ephemeral imprint on the fragile ribbon of a small mini-DV camera. An amateur video, a holiday movie; complicity and friendship. This moment of magic concludes with a clumsily framed shot of a large red tree in the Jardin des Plantes in Nantes, shot just before taking the train to Grenoble.