Emmanuel LEFRANT

(1975- )
Nationality: french

Emmanuel Lefrant's film work is based on abstraction being apprehended as landscape. A landscape that is actor or producer of emotions and subjective experiences, that proposes a sublimated vision of nature. An abundant, wild and grandiose landscape. The films lie on the idea of representing, of revealing an invisible world (the 'secret forms' of emulsion), a nature that one does not see (literally illustrated with UNDERGROUND). They are contemplative movies, which are presented under the shape of a physical experience, an experience of the body. The time of the screening is a great ordeal (the educated eye and ear suffer) because they are films that work on the hallucinatory mode: they are pure visual and kinaesthetic experiences.

Born in 1975, Emmanuel LEFRANT studied cinema at the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle where he started an academic work on abstract films. He then spent several years in Montreal where he founded the kinaesthetic research collective PHYLM with audio artist Philippe Pasquier. Since his return to Paris in 2004, he works again on performances with NOMINOË, performance collective he founded in 2000.

In parallel to that, he runs with Nicolas REY L’abominable (www.l-abominable.org/index-en.html ), an artist-run film lab based near Paris ; recently he also took part of new team of Light Cone.

8 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

	BLITZ 2006 / 16 mm / coul / sonore / 6 min.
	OVERALL 2006 / 16 mm / coul / sonore / 5 min.
	OVERALL (2E) 2006 / 16 mm / coul / sonore / 5 min.
	POSTCARDS #1 2002 / Mini DV / coul / sonore / 8 min.
	SARABAN 2002 / 16 mm / coul / sonore / 6 min.
	STILL FRAMES 2002 / 16 mm / coul / silencieux / 3 min.
	ALL OVER 2001 / 16 mm or Beta SP / coul / sonore / 7 min.
	UNDERGROUND 2001 / 16 mm / coul / sonore / 8 min.