Viviane Vagh
2021Ombres et Lumières
Viviane Vagh
Like Dervish Dancers, a meditation through images on repeated movements, obsessive, like passionate brush strokes, playing with the mystery of light and shadow, on a child’s recurring figure, faces, feminine shapes and bodies, to evoke matter and the invisible.
Ombres et Lumières
Free Women
Viviane Vagh
This film is rooted in the archetype of the feminine. It is composed of self-turned archives, filmed and amassed over time. The title of my film is a play on words to imply two states of being: Free Women and Women still to be freed from the discrimination they have suffered for so long.
Free Women
Coming Out
Viviane Vagh
Made with self-turned personal archives, Super 8, 16mm, and video, performance capture, photographs found on glass plates. Digital editing. A film poem, to try to express a single memory through the palimpsest made of the multitude of images collected over the years.
Coming Out
A Moving Image
Viviane Vagh
A single image in movement, a boat passing in front of the sun setting in winter time in the waves of the Baltic sea, surrounding the island of Gotland. Camera in hand, all of Cinema’s history and magic resonates within me in front of this metaphorical spectacle. The emotion when the alchemy occurs between shadow and light, like in a cinema, where the dark rooms brightens with the images of the film, thanks to the projector’s light.
A Moving Image
Where Did Maria Go?
Viviane Vagh
I want my film to be a metaphor of transformation in the life,death, life, cycle. The experimental film approach, the Super 8 found footage and the found photography on glass and on paper which I have used and recycled in this film, results in creating a new life for this elements. This to me is the very essence and power of the creative ritual. I have chosen the image and voice of Maria Callas, one of the most mythical women in our time, to represent this power of transformation.
Where Did Maria Go?
Petite n°8
Viviane Vagh
One of the films of the series Petite. In this subjective vision, Petite is the witness of minuscule events in every one's lives that only work on the memory can reveal by scratching away the successive layers that time has buried. The film strip has imprinted these images and projects them in a fugitive moment but also for always…
Petite n°8
Petite n°0-1
Viviane Vagh
Petite no.1' " is a sort of prologue of the series "Petite" where Viviane Vagh introduces the main character ‘Petite’ who leads us through the short poetico-symbolic films of the series and their main themes of life. We will see Petite sometimes as a child, sometimes as a teenager, a mature woman or an elderly women...
Petite n°0-1
Petite Triptyque
Viviane Vagh
"Triptyque Petite" is part of a serie. Like the pages of a diary. Exposing the strong themes of life, the short films, through the main character 'Petite', leads us by the hand into an intimate symbolic reality/fantasy world, where images, sounds and music merge past memories or a projection into the future or the other way around. Now we see ‘Petite' as a child, now a teenager, now a mature woman, now an elderly women...
Petite Triptyque