Érik Bullot

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Fragments pour un film imaginaire (2023)

A variation on paroptic vision (the ability to see with the skin, without the aid of the eyes), telepathy, colour theory and the theremin. The various sequences introduce the hypothesis of an imaginary cinema. The film is presented as a series of rushes, s ...

Language of Birds (2022)

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 es ...

Le quatuor ambigu (2020)

Inspired by the world of the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Le Quator ambigu presents a series of poetic and visionary paintings in which four young women, inspired by the artists Meret Oppenheim, Bona, Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini, engage in w ...

Traité d'optique (2017)

Can we take a film back, propose a new version of it in order to update its promises and unfulfilled injunctions? Can we refresh a film, as we say of a computer screen? One can for example say the film, tell its manufacture and its hazards during a confere ...

The Alphabet Revolution (2014)

A sly investigation of language and its links to cultural identity, Érik Bullot's documentary looks at the repercussions of Turkey's rapid removal of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet in 1928. ...

Tongue Twisters (2011)

« How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? » A tongue twister is a sentence with much alliterations and is complicated to pronounce. A tongue twister must be spoken quickly and repeated a few times. Langage breaks down betw ...

Glossolalie (2005)

This film lists language discrepancies. Speaking backwards, listening to world radios, conversing in different languages, writing a coded message, signing, calligraphy, singing in Esperanto, praying in tongues, speaking imaginary languages ​​are some o ...

La Belle Étoile (2004)

Crossing a wave, drawings in the form of a maze, the games of a child with his mother, the bamboo forest, the races in the burnt grass, the snow in winter, the flowers in the light, the trees in bloom in spring, the walk under the trees, the sunrise, the c ...

The Ape of Light (2002)

"The sound is the ape of the light", wrote Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher. Can the laws of optics be transposed to the world of sound? Can one see the sound? Through relationships between image and sound, voice and music, noise and performance, the film ...

Oh oh oh ! (2002)

The face of a child in the light, the run in the grass, the columns of a Roman temple, the looks and the smiles, the trip to Italy, the windows of a train in the mountains, the variations of the light, the Pacific Ocean. The film is the second part of a fi ...

L'attraction universelle (2000)

Train travel, sky maps observed with a magnifying glass, dance on a wire, spinning tops, attractions, rides, terrestrial globe, discs, dance, Luna Park, big night wheel, fireworks, bungee jumping make up various sequences that evoke Newtonian physics and c ...

Le Calcul du Sujet (2000)

A hedgehog in the light, the shadows of a hand on a round belly, a bouquet of carnations, a bowl of tangerines, the bathing of an infant under a medlar tree, the jumps in his mother's arms, the first steps in the grass, bus rides, flowering trees, the chil ...

Les Noces chymiques (1999)

L’Ébranlement (1997)

The principle of the film l'Ébranlement is twofold, based on the visual approximation of two distant terms (fencing and fireworks) and on a principle of expenditure (the possible engendering of one by the other). Images of fireworks are edited in echo to ...

Le Manteau de Michel Pacha (1996)

Travel diary filmed in Tamaris (near Toulon), Istanbul and Marseille, "Le Manteau de Michel Pacha" is a film-essay on exoticism. How can exoticism persist beneath the documentary? Between the imagery and the experience of travel, the numerous filmed portra ...

Le Jardin chinois (1990)

A short story from Les Enfantines by Valery Larbaud, La Grande époque , describes the imaginary countries crossed by children in a undoubtedly tiny garden. ...

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