Guillaume Vallée

Le muscle à cinq pattes

Guillaume Vallée

A film in five parts, inspired by as much fictional and historical characters, who have demonstrated, by their work or their action, the dark side of the man. -GV

Il fait gris dans ta tête, tout à coup

Guillaume Vallée, Sarah Seené

Monsieur 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.

Le bulbe tragique

Guillaume Vallée

Ephemeral traces of nothingness—rotoscoping farmers, crumbling churches, dying memories as hand-painted layers, decay & collage on film emulsion as incidental traces of nothingness. A work that is aware of its own mechanisms.

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.

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.

Les 120 jours de Sodome

Guillaume Vallée

Sadistic purity of transfer of raw emotions from the reading of the work of the Marquis de Sade “The 120 days of Sodom. Engraving and painting on film

Trikarenos

Guillaume Vallée

Three act audio-visual collaboration between Guillaume Vallée & Harmergeddon.

Analog Hellraiser

Guillaume Vallée

Cameraless film – contact printed 16mm footage over Super8 raw stock – abstraction in the form of colourful flickers – Done for the OneTake Super8 organised by Double Negative.

Untitled

Guillaume Vallée

Hand processed cameraless film subjected to different homeade light sources. This is an obsessive exploration of a short scene that demonstrates a group of Roman soldiers who constantly cross the frame, accentuating the horizontal flow of movement.

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

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.

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.

Antiprism

Guillaume Vallée

Using a Super-8 roll, a shot of a woman walking on a dock repeats itself in effort to mimic decaying memories. The film is destroyed by decay and chemical intervention, then dubbed to VHS tape and manipulated live with a modified VCR.

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.

Self Talk With Nothingness

Guillaume Vallée

Hand-processed Super8 film as a dialogue with your darkest self.