Before he launched himself as the European pioneer of drawn animation, the French Emile Cohl enjoyed himself with cyclism, philately, duels and lots of other occupations. Cohl was one of the liveliest representatives of the ‘Incoherents’, a French movement in art that preceded the Dadaists. With plenty of humour they attacked the sacrosanct values of the academic arts. Cohl was also a very productive graphic artist and cartoonist. Besides some samples of his graphic works, this exhibition comprises four of his early films, which are for the first time integrated in the context of visual art. In 2008, hundred years after his first film, his legacy will finally be consecrated in Paris.
Programme: Fantasmagorie (1908), Les joyeux microbes (1909), Le Binettoscope (1910), Le retapeur de cervelles (1911)
Also in this combined programme
-
Toast
The photo-piece ‘Toast’ is just a reflection on cinema, with the allure of an emblematic tableau. ‘Verité Projetée’ is a poster-installation that also -
Dark Light
Hundreds of light bulbs, some flashing, others unwired, but all wrapped in plastic images cut by the artist, together form a kind of animated chain… -
Papierpixel
Paper Pixels takes up the 200 year old principle of the punched data carrier to convert a scène from the video game Half Life, in… -
Sine (Digital/Analog-Convertor)
A digital video tape flutters in the air stream of a ventilator, dances in the light beam of a projector, throws jittery shadows: calligraphy and… -
Two Pencil Durations
For the monumental ‘Two Pencil Durations’ McCall used two types of pencil for a minimalist game with simple hatch marks, to maximum effect. -
Verité exposée
The photo-piece ‘Toast’ is just a reflection on cinema, with the allure of an emblematic tableau. ‘Verité Projetée’ is a poster-installation that also -
Pickled Eastman Kodak 7302
The Yellow Movies are Conrad’s solution to the problem of how to produce films that could run for a lifetime. The Pickled Films are the… -
PanicMadSkin
The Rotterdam artist evokes brutal, ‘primal scenes’ from which all civilized norms are banned. For this exhibition he creates a big mural drawing and -
Frame by Frame
On light boxes and monitors Tscherkassky shows two versions of his CinemaScope Trilogy: as stream of moving images, and as a montage of filmstrips. -
The Art of the Overhead 2005
A growing collection of overhead slides is submitted by artists, graphic designers, filmmakers, cartoonists, writers et cetera. Christian Faubel’s Ove -
Exploding Camera
Artist/performer Julien Maire deconstructed a video camera, but kept the light sensor intact. Dots of light spread throughout the space are being reco -
Light Spill
A projector in a room spills the contents of a film reel onto the floor. Over the course of the exhibition there emerges an uncontrollable… -
Picnoleptic City (Rotterdam Edit)
A graffiti project. The urban unconscious is what interests Åsdam: the relations between subjectivity and the State, along with the dialectic between -
Yellow Movie 2/26/73
The Yellow Movies are Conrad’s solution to the problem of how to produce films that could run for a lifetime. The Pickled Films are the… -
One Second Drawings
Latham used a spray gun for a series of 60 one-second drawings which denoted ‘the least event’; an illustration of Latham’s view on the fundamental… -
Trigger
A performance Trigger, whereby each image, or flash of light is triggered by a live gunshot. In Trigger the interaction between the sound of the… -
Beirut Caoutchouc
The Lebanese artist designed a map of Beirut city, engraved in centimeters thick, lusterless rubber. The result is a monochrome, rather macabre puzzle
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- -
- Director
- Emile Cohl
