Christian Lebrat

V5 (Zip Zap) (2018)

V5 (Zip-Zap) progresses via a tight, interweaving montage of rapid sequences, which were filmed directly from a CRT TV screen. ...

Vibrations (2014)

9 key moving image works created by filmmaker Christian Lebrat over a ten-year period (1976-1985). Each film focus on an aspect of his experimentation with the use of color in cinema. ...

V4 (It Could Happen to You) (2010)

Filmed unexpectedly on the port of Genoa, the jazz music resonates with the lights of the city. The video loop, multiplied and worked on during the editing, induces in the spectator a kind of spatio-temporal hypnosis reinforced by the light patterns that c ...

V3 (Collapse) (2009)

Swallowed in the emptiness with a dull and gloomy noise, the face gradually vanishes with a recurring rocking motion. ...

V2 (Puccini) (2008)

This film is part of the Twenty Puccini Project."A cellist freely interprets a few famous themes from Puccini's La Bohème. A camera films the musical "performance" from very close up. Shot in a single take, the point is not to tell a story, but to attempt ...

Out of (K)nowhere: un film d'Anne Prat (2006)

Very little was left of the film by Anne Prat, a brilliant student who studied cinema with me at the University of Paris in the 1970s. Anne Prat was not just any student. Three weeks before summer break in 1976, even though she had not taken part in any of ...

Le Moteur de l'Action (A.M.D) (1985)

"I found that soundtrack abandonned on a shelf in an editing room. It had been hanging about there for a few weeks before I decided to listen to it. There you are, carefully cellotaped in the correct order of the editing rushes, claps, cuts and wrong frame ...

Holon (1982)

"Christian Lebrat said he thought of Monet, who painted with the series Water Lilies colors 'at the edge of the visible;' those of Holon indeed display colors so intense, so enraged with energy that they release in a pure way the performative, exclamative ...

Self-portrait with the Device (1982)

"In the 1990 text on his film Autoportrait au dispositif (1981), Lebrat wrote that all his films are in fact self-portraits, including those that are abstract colour films, and the Rothko's painting are the most beautiful examples of self-portraiture in tw ...

Vernazza-Études (1981)

Flux Re Flux (1981)

"A city, its crowds; crowds processed on film then transferred to video. I used a technique particular to video to manipulate a vertical section of the image sideways, changing both its shape and color density. Each operation was repeated a number of times ...

Trama (1980)

"In Trama, Lebrat divides a surface vertically to be filmed in six equal segments of color (yellow, red, blue, green, violet, orange). The composition stays exactly the same all the way through the film. The filmmaker puts a band on the side of every two o ...

Liminal Minimal (I & II) (1978)

To come back to abstraction, I have a feeling that colour varies in my work between two aspects: the colour-object that comes from the sensation of an object, in this case the film strip, and the opening. ...

Organisation I (1978)

First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a pre-calculated order. ...

Organisation II (1978)

In Organisation II, the vertical colored strips (red, yellow, and blue) whose height matches that of the screen move laterally while flickering on and off. ...

Organisation III (1978)

First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a pre-calculated order. ...

Trois petits tours et puis s'en vont (1976)

Melba Film Coop (2019)

Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique Willoughby, among others, were active participants, with 5 issues published between 1976 and 1979. ...

Portraits / Mirrors (1984)

A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Gérard Courant, Berndt Deprez, Bertrand Gadenne, Mythia Kolésar, Christian Lebrat, S ...

Cinématon XVI (1982)

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...