Carole Contant

Nos stars

Maurice Lemaître

Léonore Boulanger, Carole Contant

A chronicle of the fantasies and dream of women in avant-garde contemporary cinema. The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of avant-garde cinema.

Manie I : La Vaisselle

Carole Contant

End of the game. Whilst doing the washing-up, we talk about all and sundry. It is cleansing. This film followed the May 2000 criteria: ‘Do as you please in May’.

Série BB n°1: 'Dadas'

Carole Contant

intrauterine cavalcade… and after? Dada on my dad, dada on my dodo and Laïla's ponytail getting involved! This film followed the constraint of November 2004: a small film in black and white but not without color

Roc

Carole Contant

An echo of the ‘waltz’, a mysterious apparition, a nocturnal trace of a lover’s way around Parc Monceau, surrounded by buildings, where there is a rock without lips to kiss. A bid for freedom on the base of a languorous waltz mixed with the declaration of African independence. So, is Roc an echo of Su?

Tabeski

Carole Contant

Burkina new year muslim ritual, otherwise known as the sheep fair. Ouagadougou, March 2nd 2001. This film followed the September 2001 criteria: the great feast of short films.

Batem

Carole Contant

Muslim baptism ritual with ‘a little something’ of an American Catholic touch. In the heart of the sun, they dance in unison in a strange and worrying native circle. The infant only appears at nightfall. This film followed the August 2001 criteria: a short woman’s film.

Sheer Khan

Carole Contant

In one day and night alone, a crowd of obstacles appears on a young tiger’s route, convinced that a plot is brewing. ‘Jungle Tale’: Young, dynamic manager caught in the trap of his Machiavellian everyday life, Shere Khan comes out of work and returns home. A considerable number of closed doors, narrow alleys slipping by in a cold light rise up against him. The statues also show in contrast, the emptiness of his hectic life. A man who is going to quickly lose himself. This film followed the criteria of November 2001: a short film with a striped synopsis.

Su

Carole Contant

Night-time, only moped, bicycle and car lights draw our silhouettes. Metabolic disruptions: we turn into cats and we think we are loving for the first and the last time (play on words in French: foi-faith/time). This film followed the August 2001 criteria: s short film bursting with sunshine.

Laïchri

Carole Contant

met Laila at the art video festival in Casablanca in March 2000, it is the first time that I am friends with a woman who prays for Allah. Six months later she marries my brother Christophe.

Du feu de dés

Carole Contant

The secret is that there is no secret. A hymn to life scrambled by a dull and cold desire to reduce all cars to an omelette (angry with consumer society). This film followed the constraint of September 2004: a little secret film.

Manie III : La Couette

Carole Contant

and your duvet, how do you make your duvet? while trying to hang up the wagons of Le Beurre and La Vaisselle, my two previous quirks; or a totally inappropriate operation! This film followed the constraints September 2006, November 2006, January 2006: a small film in 3 stages

double V

Carole Contant

A writing metaphor, playing with memory from the reading of "W or The childhood memory", Georges Perec book.

Passage à l'an 2000

Carole Contant

I was 25 years old August 16th 1999 in Connemara, South Ireland. Road movie whilst the clouds and the rest of time pass by. This film followed the December 2000 criteria: a passing through film.

La Voix du piano

Carole Contant

Vampirical cry from the voice of the piano….or, when inspiration came in a dream. This film followed the criteria for April 2000 and June 2003: a short boys’ film and a mute film respectively.

POL

Carole Contant

Obvious, well before the 1914 war, freedom is in danger! Friends! From poetry what the devil! Come on music! This film followed the September 2002 criteria: a short film with a soundtrack and from February and April 2002: a short political film in two parts. Sound creation: April 2003 with Jean Cocteau’s voices to ‘The Great War.’

Passage à 4 temps

Carole Contant

During my journey there are encounters of everyday music. My neighbour’s cello, my flatmate’s voice mixes with piano tuners. If we walk around, the Romanian Circus gipsy dances take over the street and Paris livens up with the sunny pace of a town with ocean reflections, however ignored by the local children.