
Guillaume Vallée
2021Monsieur Jean-Claude
Guillaume Vallée
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme is back, and this time it's personal. Seventy-two photograms constructed from a 35mm trailer of JCVD's opus The Quest (1996). Re-examining conceptions of masculinity by deconstructing some of the images I watched repeatedly as a child.
Monsieur Jean-Claude
are you haunted, daddy ? (about anxiety)
Guillaume Vallée
A depiction of various anxious states of mind during isolation. Fragmented anxiety and existential thinking. Hand-processed Super8 reversal and black & white film. Based on an interesting discussion with my son about the possibility of being haunted.
are you haunted, daddy ? (about anxiety)
Kinski Wanted Herzog to Direct But He Turned it Down
Guillaume Vallée
Echo of Klaus Kinski's broken dream, in the face of Werner Herzog's multiple rejections to direct his script on the mad violonist Paganini. A psychedelic trance capturing the visions of a madman; traces of a film that could have existed.
Kinski Wanted Herzog to Direct But He Turned it Down
Différentes apparitions du spectre archéologique
Guillaume Vallée
By using techniques such as direct manipulation and optical printing, this work was meamorphosed from found fotage originally existing as a documentary film on Ancient Greece to it's existing form. This short pieces is the result of an independent study with Jean Théberge as my advisor. My approach was to subject the original film to constant experimentation as would an archeologist, peeling and re-layering scenes by means of collage, referencing the original images under multiple layers of psychedelic imagery
Différentes apparitions du spectre archéologique
The Yellow Ghost
Guillaume Vallée
This cameraless film is based on a recurent nightmare from my childhood, a night terror of a yellow specter riding a horse. The filmstrip has been destroyed by multiple expositions with a flashlight, hand-processing and a heavy noise soundtrack composed by Éric Gingras.
The Yellow Ghost
grand-maman Piano
Guillaume Vallée
This experimental autobiographical film, in which features the filmmaker's family, questions the emotion of the faded moment through audiovisual memory. The artist reappropriates on Super8 film the last moments of Hélène Lamoureux, his recently deceased grandmother. The memory image crystallizes a chaos frozen around the inanimate body.
grand-maman Piano
Les Larmes d'Eros
Guillaume Vallée, Andrée-Anne Roussel
Inspired by Georges Bataille's essay Tears of Eros, this short hybrid film/video is about erotism and death. Through different analogue manipulations of the image, we are witnessing the psychological and physical decay of the character and the filmic matter.
Tears of Eros