Constantin Jopeck
Acting
Biography
Constantin Jopeck (born in Paris, in 1991) is an artist whose practice is research-based and uses film as primary medium. After graduating from the Universities of Rome, Bologna, Strasbourg, Thessaloniki and Nanterre, in Aesthetics and Cinema, European Literature and Postmodern Theater, Constantin Jopeck established himslef as an artist-researcher within the Research Cooperative of the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Clermont Métropole. In parallel with his artistic practice he founded a residency and a festival “Le dôme” (in France in Centre Region) dedicated to moving image artists. A production residency which has taken, since 2015, the form of a laboratory for production, research and international meetings.
Known For
A group of artists settle in a swamp on the banks of the Indre River. Meanwhile, a voice describes a utopian world.
I'll See You Again
It is a walk to the desert. The walk of a young Guinean boy arrived in France at the end of 2016. His voice, his words have something in common with some of the Scriptures’ verses. They dialogue through the silent body of a woman who grieves a biblical and contemporary loss. On the ground and on the wall, a luminous print of a virtual space: a window crossed by a beam of sunlight. Considered a physical phenomenon as much as a metaphysical concern, this rectangle of light contradicts the properties of a functional lighting, causing a limited and partial coincidence between light and sculpture.
Estran
A polyphonic narrator – filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker – declares their absolute refusal of labor exploitation, and their necessity to join collective bodies in resistance.
Extra Life (and Decay)
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
Language of Birds
Early/alternate edit of what became the final sequence of the film I'll See You Again.
Perenne
The Craeria probe lands on a chalk asteroid, where all the traces of time are still visible, where all the dimensions of the landscape are to be imagined and retraced. Photogrammetry will allow us to establish perimeters, to bring back to our sight the immeasurable dimensions of an unknown porous horizon. An archaeology of the white stone beach begins...