Érik Bullot
2021L’Ébranlement
Érik Bullot
Marion Callies, Hervé Tabarant
The principle of the film l'Ébranlement is twofold, based on the visual approximation of two distant terms (fencing and fireworks) and on a principle of expenditure (the possible engendering of one by the other). Images of fireworks are edited in echo to shots of a fencing duel, situated in a perforated architecture, with arcades (the Vieille Charité, in Marseille), which multiplies the incessant passages from shadow to light. At the moment of the clash (the point of the foil touching the opponent's body), the fireworks unfold as if the contact was established - an explosion, an epidemic mode of contamination by successive stings, point by point. The touch of the foil answers the blaze of the sky. As soon as the sky darkens, after the last spikes of light are extinguished, the fencing duel can be resumed, like a carillon or an automatic game. The attack is a flash of lightning that sets the collar on fire.
L’Ébranlement
Le quatuor ambigu
Érik Bullot
Inspired by the world of the writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Le Quator ambigu presents a series of poetic and visionary paintings in which four young women, inspired by the artists Meret Oppenheim, Bona, Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini, engage in writing and divination, recalling the feminine part in the elaboration of the writer's work.
Le quatuor ambigu
Traité d'optique
Érik Bullot
Can we take a film back, propose a new version of it in order to update its promises and unfulfilled injunctions? Can we refresh a film, as we say of a computer screen? One can for example say the film, tell its manufacture and its hazards during a conference. Traité d'optique is a film conference that questions the conditions of possibility of a film revival by crossing material culture and utopia, media archaeology and family narrative, about a study film made in 1987. If the conference sometimes replaces the film, can the film itself be a conference?
Traité d'optique
L'attraction universelle
Érik Bullot
Train travel, sky maps observed with a magnifying glass, dance on a wire, spinning tops, attractions, rides, terrestrial globe, discs, dance, Luna Park, big night wheel, fireworks, bungee jumping make up various sequences that evoke Newtonian physics and cause spinning and dizziness. "Escaping from gravitation, defying gravity, defeating the circular march of bodies in space, are we able today to achieve a new revolution?"
L'attraction universelle
Le Singe de la lumière
Érik Bullot
“The sound is the ape of the light”, wrote Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher. Can the laws of optics be transposed to the world of sound? Can one see the sound? Through relationships between image and sound, voice and music, noise and performance, the film “The Ape of Light” shows a series of actions freely inspired from lesson-books and treatises on acoustics.
The Ape of Light
Langue des oiseaux
Érik Bullot
Baptiste Jopeck, Constantin Jopeck
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
Language of Birds
