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.
When I was a child, my mother, faced with my melancholy and angry attitude (...), registered me at the Decroly center in Lille to consult a psychologist... From the first session, I was treated to a parade of Rorscharch tests... Nearly 45 years later and ...
Watch NowTribute to Pierre Druesnes (1956-2022) "It's not about painting on postage stamps… But if you only have a postage stamp to express yourself, then express yourself on a postage stamp…" – Pierre Druesnes, French weaver (1956-2022) This silent film is ...
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This amusing little film in the Fouchardian tradition of short music videos and dancing prefigures the announced fall of the bourgeois empire of financial capitalism. ...
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This little film is the recalibrated edit of a small reel of kodachrome 40 super 8 which has been abandoned in a damp corner in a cinema in Brussels since 1996. Scanned in 2021 then stripped of its magnetic soundtrack, the small spool reveals unknown and d ...
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"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 erasur ...
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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 fro ...
Watch NowIn FANTÔMES, Olivier FOUCHARD brings a new variation to the genre film, he invents the "cinematheque film". ...
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Solar flares, eclipses, and explosions hand-painted directly onto the negative. The film was slowed down using a Truca and developed at the laboratory of the association MIRE (Nantes) during a residency. ...
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"Yâd: the memory. Childhood memory strucks by the war. The adult finds comfort and support rapt of contemplation over wild landscapes and sings life in a hardly murmured pain... ...
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A silent multicoloured explosion. Hand-painted, it is evocative of stained-glass windows and could serve as a posthumous tribute to Stan Brakhage's memorable "Chartres Series". ...
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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 w ...
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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 nigh ...
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"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 po ...
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In Le Granier, the earth is living, is suffering and is full of history. The still camera shows a tired mountain which seems to hide a sacred secret. These telluric landscapes transfigured by Fouchard's manipulations on the image (animation techniques, ton ...
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"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 ...
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"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 ...
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"Capitalism is always more profit for the sake of profit, it is not a relevant idea" Nicolas REY "MONEY, VERSION 2" is an inhuman, violent and idiot video-film exactly like "liberalism" (inhuman, violent and idiot). This time, this video-film (without com ...
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Experimental filmic exercise: analyzes the sun rays with the «eyes shut» vision and with «blinking» eye lids. This «hallucinative mechanic» is also symbolic and intends to celebrate a Revolution, that of the earth around the sun... ...
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The Blue Walk is a silent, experimental narrative fiction film by Olivier Fouchard. ...
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A grand and mythical landscape tries to get rid of its past. A cleansing, a rebirth on celluloid. ...
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Selfportrait. Video without computer. Sound but silent (no speakers). Pain can express itself by a visual shriek, and no words. ...
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Starting from waste from the pornographic film industry of the seventies of the last century which I first sent to rot in a basin of water before passing the film through a Truca-JK type optical printer. MTK Workshop, The tomb of Aphrodite was transformed ...
Watch NowJuly, 14th, 1789, then 1989 and its media coveraged bicentenary. Here a 16mm July 14th in order to wake up the sleepers and to tell them that the revolution is not only a party... This film has to be screened while assistants, projectionists, usherettes, c ...
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9,5>16 is with no doubt the achievement of film researches conducted ten years ago on «rayograms» (see Man Ray's «ciné-rayogrammes») and researches on «table printing». 9,5>16 is a pure «rayogram» film, without any figurative pattern, maybe realiz ...
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An approach to the different beliefs and representations of God assimilated to light. Light being associated with Spirit in the Coran. The issue of God being represented in human shape is solved by the assimilation of God with the light of the Cosmos. ...
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Carrion Remember the object we saw, my soul, This beautiful summer morning so sweet: At the bend of a path an infamous carrion On a bed strewn with pebbles, Legs in the air, like a lustful woman, Scorching and sweating poisons, Opened in a nonchalan ...
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The pace of the film, step by step, sometimes blind, sometimes radiant, a one-way ticket, long before or after the story itself, brings the image to fruition. Like a mineral, enigmatic, a fragment of an ancient language. ...
Watch NowI'm watching a film by Mahine and Fouchard. Magnificent! Archaic, mystical, essential. To be programmed some day with Pier Paolo Pasolini's UCCELLACI UCCELLINI. The pace of the film, step by step, sometimes blind, sometimes radiant, a one-way ticket, long ...
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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 progr ...
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Two bodies, or rather, two women hiding in the darkness. Sometimes they light each other up, sometimes they play hide and seek in the half-light. Both fireflies and butterflies, they start surprising nights choreographies that we only see in fragments. At ...
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"A form emerging from the cinematographic material paces mountain trails. Singular irruption that disappears and blends into nature and its representation. There is no more separation, or so little, between being and the world, yet irreconcilable. The voic ...
Watch NowA 16mm film printed flat, with the light (the flickers) of an empty lighter, in the darkness of my bathroom. Home-made printing, without a printer (as for Man Ray's rayographs in Retour à la raison) using Éclair 16mm solarised and hand-colored newsreels. ...
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This film is designed to be unwound on a reel and read through the film (light table). Can also be projected. ...
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A self-portrait which erases itself, leaving place to a dance of luminous rhythms. ...
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This short film was recorderd during a japanese experimental film screening at the 102. Shot in Fuji Single 8. According to the filmmaker, the real purpose of JAPANESE 102 was to film his friends and play with possible meeting chances between sound and ima ...
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"The gesture of making a film is as simple as that of appropriating what one has at hand, including the old principle of recovery that is practiced here shamelessly (...)". ...
Watch NowAsexual creatures frolic left and right before the eyes of little children? A film that explores, in a light and amusing manner, what Walt Disney movies and, more generally speaking, movies for children, might potentially contain. Also, I wanted to play wi ...
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