2004 — 41′59″ — DigiBeta
Filmed in June-July 2004, Di sotto in su was conceived and created for the ‘Primatice’ exhibition, held at the Louvre museum. The images of models, seen behind a veil of drawings and citations in the style of Fontainebleau’s grand décor, compose a melancholic poem in four parts: spring (‘ronde au jardin’); summer (the sensual ‘Appartement des Bains’), autumn (‘incendies’), and winter (‘château déserté’).
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2003 — 11′43″ — DigiBeta
François Rouan’s first film allowed the painter to introduce the dimensions of time and movement into his work. The camera in Clamouse sweeps slowly across paintings and photographic work, exploring the feminine ‘cave’ (‘la grotte féminine’), imagining a journey through a sequence of contrasting lands (like the abandoned or excessively adorned chambers of an imaginary cave); at its core are the obscure images, unravelled by the play of the light.
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