Xavier Baert

Contrechants, atlas (2023)

Présence (2013)

Footage of dancer Julien Touati in dramatic lighting. ...

Extase (2007)

Two men making love. The question of the embrace (which encompasses the caress, the look, the kiss, the penetration, the speed of movement, the expression of ecstasy…) give to the film a scenario of examples of editing (disconnection, links, rhythm, inte ...

Empreinte (2004)

This birth of the human silhouette metonymically takes us back to the origins of cinema, to Marey or Muybridge's pre-cinema. Baért with his model wanted to re-find the dancer Loie Fuller's aerial movements such as one can see in Fire Dance (1901). This re ...

Nu lacté (2002)

Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom from Beijing: one strips himself naked while the others veil and reveal the film. ...

Fantôme (2002)

Xavier Baert works on the visual outline of the body. He creates cinematographic body states which according to the French filmmaker, only cinema can invent. Ghost plays on projection and light phenomenon, on the double exposure of a body on another. The n ...

Révélation (2001)

Found footage movie from Wong Kar-wai's In the mood for love trailer. ...

Danseurs à la Gay Pride 2001 (2001)

If it is films which reveal 'the choreographic fatality of cinematographic intervention'(Dominique Paini) this one henceforth very much belongs-dance gestures, in slow motion, distorted, halted, impregnate the film procession in a commentary-magnificent-by ...

Bal de la Tournelle (1999)

A high angle shot of light, colours and rhythms in the darkness of a rave party. Freedom of Super 8 (main material of most of my films at this time), slow motion intensity (Hong-Kong cinema convinced me about the profoundness), a flash of a male body outli ...

Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français (2019)

Founded in the second half of the 1990s, the experimental film association L'Etna witnessed the transition from film to digital cinema. Its premises, located in the heart of Paris, were unable to withstand gentrification. ...

Halloween Queen 1 (1999)

A queer fiction that pays homage to 1930s Universal horror films and German Expressionism—a sacrificial rite of sex and rock. ...