Emmanuel Lefrant
Emmanuel LEFRANT (1975, France) lives and works in Paris, where he makes films, all self-produced, exclusively on celluloid. The films are predicated on the idea of representing and revealing an invisible world (the secret forms of emulsion), a nature that one does not see. In 2000, together with Nicolas Berthelot, Alexis Constantin, and Stéphane Courcy, he founded the collective Nominoë.
Filmography
(all short) Underground (2001), All Over (2001), Still Frames (2002), Saraban (2002), Postcards #1 (2002), Overall (2006), Blitz (2006), Parties visible et invisible d’un ensemble sous tension (2009), Le pays dévasté (2015), I Don’t Think I Can See an Island (2016), Per una selva oscura (2022)
Emmanuel Lefrant at IFFR
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Per una selva oscura
The dark forest beloved of poets, cinematically recreated in a timely, materialist and apocalyptic vein.
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The first images shot with the film camera that Mekas bought in 1950 after arriving in New York form the ‘diary images’ of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The
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Still Frames
Still Frames is a laboratory film that was conceived and developed using the same images as Lefrant’s film Saraban.
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Ritournelle
The roll of 16mm film given to director Becks by his colleague Miller contained a ghost track which seems to have scripted their abstract film.
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Austerity Measures
A portrait of the Exarchia district in Athens during the austerity protests. Fists and flyers. Filmed in separated red, green and blue.
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Whiplash
The beautiful images are brief, sometimes whimsical and counterpoint the music. Travel footage becomes attentive, joyful poetry.
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Chromaticité I
People flee in terror before the force, or remain riveted to their seat, in the clutches of fear.
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Tunnel Vision
The train slides out of the station and we’re plunged into a nocturnal ballet of converging parallel rails, shimmering lights and endless tunnels.
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Batagur Baska
Digital rituals in the analogue Cloud. They carry their gadgets to optimize the experience. They believe that this moment will remain unforgotten. (Li
