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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Nicolas Provost

Nicolas PROVOST (1969, Belgium) is a filmmaker and visual artist currently living in New York. He graduated in 1994 from Ghent’s Royal Art Academy of Fine Arts. He spent the last two years of his studies as an exchange student experimenting with video in Norway, where he lived for eight more years. His work has earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals, as well as solo exhibitions and retrospectives in galleries and museums across the world.

Filmography

Need Any Help? (2000, short), Madonna with Child (2001, short), Pommes d’amour (2001, short), I Hate This Town (2002, short), Yellow Mellow (2002, short), Bataille (2003, short), Papillon d’amour/Butterfly of Love (2003, short), Oh Dear (2004, short), Exoticore (2004, short), The Divers (2006, short), Induction (2006, short), Suspension (2007, short), Gravity (2007, short), Plot Point (2007, short), Long Live the New Flesh (2009, short), Storyteller (2010, short), Abstract Action (2010, short), Stardust (2010, short), Moving Stories (2011, short), The Invader (2011), Tokyo Giants (2012, short), The Dark Galleries (2013, short), The Painters (2013, short), llumination (2014, short), The Invader and The Origine of The World (2014, short), The Perfect Wave (2014), Exodus (2015, short), Ego (2015, short), Humanity (2016, short)

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Nicolas Provost at IFFR

  • Induction

    Disconcerting, mysterious family drama in which an intruder demands the leading role.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
  • Need Any Help?

    Man and woman in car in an absurdist, intelligent, C-film scene.

    • main programme short
  • Plot Point

    Provost takes us along to the gleaming, Hyperion hyperrealistic New York City of now, when the police behave mysteriously.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
  • Gravity

    Deep passion becomes a stranglehold as cinematographic high points pile up.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
  • Suspension

    I spy with my little eye…

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
  • Madonna with child

    Very personal, pretty explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ.

    • main programme short
  • I Hate This Town

    Soft-core images on hard-core electronics.

    • main programme short
  • Good Afternoon, Gentlemen

    A cold abstract 3D animation set against the warm voice of a dying HAL9000 (A Space Odyssey) creates a nightmare sensation.

    • exploding cinema
  • Tokyo Giants

    Last part of the Plot Point Trilogy by Nicolas Provost with the Japanese capital Tokyo and its inhabitants as the leads.

    • Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
  • The Dark Galleries

    Provost creates a fascinating hall of mirrors through a splendid montage of film noir scenes, in which the actors face a painted portrait. Also see Th

    • Signals: Regained