Pommes d’amour
A series of three mirror-image video films about love and sorrow, narcissism and loss. With rewritten synthetic dialogues and a recomposed sound image, the maker uses scenes from films by Resnais and Bergman to evoke a surreal, alienating and bizarre nostalgic mood.
Nicolas Provost
Director
Also Directed by Nicolas Provost
By subjecting fragments from the film 'Rashomon' by Akira Kurosawa to the mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinating scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. Papillon d'amour produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities and wounded act of dissappearance.
Real and well-known American cop land, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances and crowded streets, turns into a perfect cinematic scenery questioning the boundaries of reality and fiction, but also narrative codes of cinema.
short featuring a near-romantic rooftop interaction in slow motion
After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The images originate from existing films such as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the soundtrack offers no redemption.
An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes and narrative tools from the Hollywood film language. The award winning Plot Point (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in Stardust and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and turns the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story.
Storyteller recomposes aerial shots from the Las Vegas casino skyline maneuvering and influencing the interpretation of images, carefully balancing between the figurative and the abstract.
"In its entirety Exodus is a 15-minute silent film in CinemaScope. I traveled across four western US states and came across monumental landscapes of immense cinematic beauty. Without dialogue or explicit narrative, this is a meditative slideshow anticipating a near future."
A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to integrate in Norwegian society. Exoticore is a touching tale about modern-day people trying to find their place in this world. A film about being a foreigner, about solitude and contemporary insanity. A dark journey into exoticism.
An experimental journey through the textures and iconography of horror cinema.
