Patrice Kirchhofer

Eugénie de Franval par Louis Skorecki (2019)

This film is an audio interview of Louis Skorecki, filmmaker and film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, by Patrice Kirchhofer and Gérard Courant. This interview, later put into images by Gérard Courant, is centred around the feature film Eugénie de Franval ...

Écriture (2019)

First part of the trilogy on language, on the birth of writing. ...

Altair B (2009)

A film driven by the musical universe of Patrice Kirchhofer. ...

Edison I (2005)

Digital film ...

Edison II (2005)

During a vacation, Gilles Deleuze questions the concept of "knowing how to swim" and the relationship with the wave. ...

Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu (1989)

Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles. ...

Pour un temps (1984)

Film by Patrice Kirchhofer. ...

L'escalier de la haine (1982)

Story of a squatter family told by a rat. ...

Hors Titre I (1981)

Hors Titre I (Off-Title I) is a hermetic movie deliberately mysterious. Figure interpreted by Stuart Sherman shines in the first part of the film by his anonymity. The man drowned in the crowd, activity, all this urban life that is foreign to him. It expre ...

Bridge Film (1981)

The filmmaker intersects the flow of traffic on narrow streets and on the canals of a European city. ...

Réserve (1981)

Animated scouting whose primary goal is to reactivate the poetry of myths in urban areas. ...

Carolyn II (1980)

Portrait. She dances in the center of her area. Obscure to the look. She abandons us to her limit. Turn. Count the chips. Conjugate. Turn on yourself, in a blind echo. Cross the already deserted space. ...

Décembre 1979 (1980)

"Breaking in. Patrice Kirchhofer's Anorexie 4 continues on the path of the narrated narrative (a short story by Chandler) and Décembre 79 on the path of photography. At the end of these two journeys, the film becomes the subject and the trace of the same ...

Resultante I (1980)

An experiment transposing a painting by the artist Jacqueline Bosson into film. A particularly delicate exercise which consists of preserving the quality of both the colors and the range of blacks and whites, of directing the gaze to a single part of an en ...

Anorexie V (1979)

Fotomatar (1979)

Fotomatar is a french-spanish word more or less made up, which makes us think of a "phot-booth" (photomaton) and hesitate between "mater" ("mater" is a french slang word for "to look at") and matar (which means "to kill" in spanish). This film plays with n ...

Anorexie II (1979)

A cinema encyclopedia. Yet another history of film. ...

Anorexie IV (1979)

"Breaking in. Patrice Kirchhofer's Anorexie 4 continues on the path of the narrated narrative (a short story by Chandler) and Décembre 79 on the path of photography. At the end of these two journeys, the film becomes the subject and the trace of the same ...

Anorexie I (1979)

To approach a photo printed by Patrice Kirchhofer is frightening. I have long seen in them an agression by negligence. With patience, I found in them the solution that fancy lab prints could not convey. Patrice K manipulates the marks made irrationally, en ...

Anorexie III (1979)

Found footage, edited from international news footage. ...

Chromaticité II (1978)

Second film of the series, from a few images - some photocopied - and a soundtrack full of noise (of war) and fury - the Vietnam War to be precise - guns, aircraft carrier take-offs, noise from napalm bombs, hair-dryers and zippos lighters. The horror ! Th ...

Rémanence I (1978)

Rail Ditch and Fence. ...

28035 (1978)

"In this work in progress, which will never be completed, even though he has screened it in public several times, the filmmaker discusses with the writer France Huser the difficulty of filming / women / of letters / and of making a frontal portrait, which ...

PUNK (1978)

Carolyn I (1977)

The first part of the Carolyn Carlson cycle. Between her and herself. Three images of the dance are repeated, come up against opacities that do not let themselves be crossed, are lost in transparencies from which there is no reflection. The sound describes ...

Modulation de fréquence P.P.U. (1977)

The misappropriation and use of information. ...

Chromaticité I (1977)

I saw people flee in fright before the force of Chromaticité I, during which I remained fastened to my seat, in the clutches of fear. The last image, the screen turns white: I glance at my neighbour, immobilised just as myself. ...

Marilyn, Guy Lux et les nonnes (1977)

Optical Density I (1977)

Densité Optique I (Optical Density I) mark a chromatic decomposition of the image. The choice to show a scrolling film movie as an extreme slow motion, frame by frame voluntarily directs the gaze on the work of the image. This aesthetic can remember those ...

Ataraxie I (1977)

I had the sudden urge to run through the forest while watching ATARAXIE I. Upon returning home, I went straight to my dictionary to look up the meaning of the title: "Tranquility of the soul. For the Stoics, a state of mind that nothing can disrupt: the id ...

Sensitométrie VI (1976)

A test film shot in super 8 mm and 16 mm inflated for copying. A first film "long", made with nothing, "hypnotic", slow and repetitive as it was at the time fascinating and usual to do, as an exercise in style mandatory. A period film. ...

Sensitométrie VII (1976)

A barbaric feast of "Mad Masters" of our country hardly unexplored, originally on a very repetitive "kraft" music .... ...

Sensitométrie I (1973)

The fist movie of the series "Sensitométrie" is an animated film. Animation techniques offers incredible possibilities of de-structuring an image. Even in classical animated films, there is no pre-existing "real". One must reconstruct something based on t ...

Eugénie de Franval par Louis Skorecki (2019)

This film is an audio interview of Louis Skorecki, filmmaker and film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, by Patrice Kirchhofer and Gérard Courant. This interview, later put into images by Gérard Courant, is centred around the feature film Eugénie de Franval ...

Court-Circuit #276 : Patrice Kirchhofer, Cinéaste Expérimental (2006)

Patrice Kirchhofer ...