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Pregnant man - l'homme enceint de Frédérique Pollet Rouyer // 2009
Pregnant man - l'homme enceint
Les photos de Frédérique Pollet Rouyer sur la question de l'homme enceint.
Pictures by Frédérique Pollet Rouyer about the topic of man pregancy.
English translation of voice over:
This idea for a photographic work came to me while working on the film 'The male domination'.
In photography, the question of the genre, as opposed to sex, is a concept often used by transsexuals and cross-gender people. But I was mostly interested in starting from the everyday banality.
Starting from the most classical visual representation of the woman, i.e. nudity and pregnancy, to construct a hybrid individual : evidently male, but female in its representation.
Genre is a social fabrication, a performance that everyone plays on a daily basis, very often without realising it.
It is also obeying to a completely arbitrary model, masculin or feminin.
Through their unquestionable artificiality, these photos testify on this fabrication.
As every society fabricates a "male being" and a "female being" according to norms, these images are, just as arbitrarily, constructing a "pregnant man".
Which evidently doesn't exist... and doesn't exist more than the so-called natural masculinity or feminity that we were taught in our childhood.
The choice of pregnancy is not a random one, for it is the biological element that allows any patriarchal system, ancient or modern, to confine women in secondary roles. Pretexting that the woman gives birth, gives her in the most naturally way the role of looking after the children and the house. The pregnant womb is the most deep-rooted symbol of female oppression. It is the most reactionary voice in order to justify male domination.
"Women should stay put", 'their genius lies in their ovaries" was heard not so long ago.
But the pregnant man is also the father-man. Not the father as envisaged in the patriarchal views, but a father who carries, takes care, expects, and just as well as the mother-woman, brings a child to life.
It is not about making fun, nor to ridicule. It is about giving thoughts to the question of masculine and feminine genres, such as they are constantly imposed to us.
The pregnant man represents the human being of the future. A being, whose behaviour is not not conditioned by its biology. A being, free to become whatever he/ her chooses.
Patric Jean took the risk to lend me his appearance while he was making his film. While one recognises his face, no one knows where the real image stops and where the fabrication begins.
One would possibly be very surprised...
Just as it is surprising to see, in each of us, where the obedience to a model starts : being a man or a woman.
Un travail vidéo et photo perpétuellement en cours
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Des fimlms d'artistes inventé par Patric Jean
A master piece.// Un bijoux de court-métrage documentaire à l'inverse des "Streap tease". Ce film nous fait entrer avec poésie et drôlerie dans la folie d'un personnage dont le réalisateur ne se moque jamais. Une de mes références...
Des retraités participent à un atelier de danse contemporaine et tout à coup une sensualité voire un érotisme apparaiseent de manière inattendue de la part même des participants. Poème documentaire musical
Projection architecturale jouant sur l'apparence du bâtiment redessiné. Le film bouleverse la perspective en partant d'éléments réels de la façade.
The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers "Galerie der Gegenwart". Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves - describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.
Production: urbanscreen.com
Art Direction: Daniel Rossa - rossarossa.de
Technical Director: Thorsten Bauer
3D Operator: David Starmann shineundsein.de
Sound Design : Jonas Wiese
Realized with mxwendler.net mediaserver
Les photos de Frédérique Pollet Rouyer sur la question de l'homme enceint.
Pictures by Frédérique Pollet Rouyer about the topic of man pregancy.
English translation of voice over:
This idea for a photographic work came to me while working on the film 'The male domination'.
In photography, the question of the genre, as opposed to sex, is a concept often used by transsexuals and cross-gender people. But I was mostly interested in starting from the everyday banality.
Starting from the most classical visual representation of the woman, i.e. nudity and pregnancy, to construct a hybrid individual : evidently male, but female in its representation.
Genre is a social fabrication, a performance that everyone plays on a daily basis, very often without realising it.
It is also obeying to a completely arbitrary model, masculin or feminin.
Through their unquestionable artificiality, these photos testify on this fabrication.
As every society fabricates a "male being" and a "female being" according to norms, these images are, just as arbitrarily, constructing a "pregnant man".
Which evidently doesn't exist... and doesn't exist more than the so-called natural masculinity or feminity that we were taught in our childhood.
The choice of pregnancy is not a random one, for it is the biological element that allows any patriarchal system, ancient or modern, to confine women in secondary roles. Pretexting that the woman gives birth, gives her in the most naturally way the role of looking after the children and the house. The pregnant womb is the most deep-rooted symbol of female oppression. It is the most reactionary voice in order to justify male domination.
"Women should stay put", 'their genius lies in their ovaries" was heard not so long ago.
But the pregnant man is also the father-man. Not the father as envisaged in the patriarchal views, but a father who carries, takes care, expects, and just as well as the mother-woman, brings a child to life.
It is not about making fun, nor to ridicule. It is about giving thoughts to the question of masculine and feminine genres, such as they are constantly imposed to us.
The pregnant man represents the human being of the future. A being, whose behaviour is not not conditioned by its biology. A being, free to become whatever he/ her chooses.
Patric Jean took the risk to lend me his appearance while he was making his film. While one recognises his face, no one knows where the real image stops and where the fabrication begins.
One would possibly be very surprised...
Just as it is surprising to see, in each of us, where the obedience to a model starts : being a man or a woman.
Oscar 2004 best animation movie - Meilleur court métrage animation, ce film s'inspire de la vie de Ryan Larkin, un animateur canadien qui, il y a trente ans, a réalisé à l'Office national du film certaines des œuvres d'animation les plus marquantes de son époque.
Ryan fait entendre la voix de ce dernier et celles de gens qui l'ont connu par l'entremise d'étranges personnages en 3D, tordus, brisés et désarticulés... des personnages dont les allures bizarres, humoristiques ou simplement troublantes reflètent l'univers psycho-réaliste de Chris Landreth.
London Digital Week, MultiTouch Sequencer & Sphere
(TENT Digital @ Truman Brewery)
Expériences d'interfaces originales et innovantes à la London Digital Week.
Très belle expérience de vidéo interractive.
Nice interactive video experience.
Experimental short. The life force ebbs from a fallen figure in a noir-esque cityscape.
Très court expérimentail très fort dans un décor urbain très noir.
A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse. The intention was to capture and sustain the exact moment of impending catastrophe and endlessly repeat it.
Système de sculptures toujours au bord de la chute. L'intentino est de provoquer et montrer le moment exact d'une catastrophe au bord de se produire inlassablement.
Original version of the animated feature film "We are the Strange" 94 minutes : Presented in Str8nime
Réalisé en dehors des circuits habituels de production par un homme seul.
Pour en comprendre l'intérêt lisez
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-10/pl_screen
All other language versions here
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...
Accolades and awards:
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection 2007
Golden Prize "Most Groundbreaking Film" Fantasia Film Festival Montreal 2007
Silver Prize "Best Animated Film" Fantasia Film Festival Montreal 2007
"Best Feature Film" HDFEST 2007
Director Selected "25 new faces of independent film" Filmmaker Magazine 2007
To watch this film, you'll need a pair of colour 3D glasses.
Pour voir ce film, vous avez besoin d'une paire de lunettes 3D color code.
Entre figuration et abstraction, Drux Flux est un film d'animation misant sur un montage dynamique pour illustrer l'écrasement de l'homme moderne par le rouleau compresseur de la performance. S'inspirant de L'homme unidimensionnel du philosophe Herbert Marcuse, le cinéaste déconstruit les paysages industriels
Part figurative, part abstract, Drux Flux is an animated short comprised of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by philosopher Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, the filmmaker deconstructs industrial scenes and their terrifying geometry to show the inhumanity of progress.
To watch this film, you'll need a pair of colour 3D glasses.
Pour voir ce film, vous avez besoin d'une paire de lunettes 3D color code.
Extrait d'un film mélangeant le tournage d'images réelles et l'animation 3 D
Short part of a movie associating live-action shooting and 3D animation
présentation d'un jeu participatif, (ARG) Alternate Reality Game de la télévision suédoise. Une expérience très intéressante. En anglais seulement.
demo of a swedish television (ARG) Alternate Reality Game.
No video cameras were used in the production of this video. It was created entirely from over 15,000 still photographs on a Canon EOS 400D DSLR, shot on location in the Wicklow mountains, February 2010.
Directed by Souljacker
Aucune caméra n'a été utilisée pour ce film, seulement un appareil photo Canon EOS 400D DSLR utilisé pour prendre ces 15.000 photos.
RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture.
Un film open source documentaire sur le copyright dans la culture web.
En voie de film culte.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiP!
http://www.ripremix.com/
Un ARG fiction avec une tétude de cas intéressante
http://lanceweiler.com/hope-is-missing/
For HOPE IS MISSING the goal was to create a social media driven ARG. We wanted the game to have various levels of interactivity. For instance, someone might just watch the web series and do nothing more – others might choose to dig deeper. HOPE IS MISSING consisted of four web films that were loaded with hidden clues. The videos were released on stage6, myspace and xbox. By design we wanted to make the ARG (alternate reality game) accessible. In order to do so, we created layers of interactivity that allowed viewers to go as deep into the experience as they wanted.
http://lanceweiler.com/
Bande annonce du film de Banksy, lui-même !
"Exit trough the Gift Shop" n'est pas seulement un documentaire brillant sur les meneurs du mouvement Streetart, mais c'est aussi une critique réussie du marché international de l'art, et de son attitude hautaine et blasée. Banksy, l'artiste à la fois le plus connu et le plus secret de la scène street art, a réussi à créer un personnage, Mr Brainwash, qui, même s'il n'existe pas, vends à chaque grosse exposition d'art de L.A pour plus d'un million de dollars d'oeuvres. Le personnage du film est interprété par Thierry Guetta, camera man du film. Les connaisseurs voient en lui l’artiste streetart space invader. Aucune interview n’a été accordée et Banksy a annulé la conference de presse par un message enregistré.
Michel Reilhac et Julien Aubert parlent des ARG au Workshop Transmedia Lab
Short documentary film about one word, using different techniques of animation.
Court documentaire à propos d'un seul mot et utilisant différentes techniques d'animation.
Utilisation de l'holographie dans un spectacle.
Holographic Drumkit and Turntables test.
Show holographique kitch mais impressionnant car à l'échelle 1 et en temps réel.
Best of holograme. A quite kitch show, real size and live. Amazing.
http://www.ivstechnologies.com/produit-3244.html
Curious Displays functions simultaneously as a form of design research and as a proposal for a new product, a future display technology.
Recherche de design pour une technologie d'écran du futur.
experimental short film. the history of the 20th century illustrated by 600 photographs of the Genbaku Dome, center of elegant urban life in Japan where the atomic bomb killed 78,000 people.
court expérimental à partir de 600 photos du Dome Genbaku, centre de l'élégance niponne qui résista à la bombe atomique (qui tua 78.000 personnes)
Un très beau point de vue sur la "jungle" où survivent des sans-papiers afghans à Calais. La Grande-Bretagne est face à vous.
A beautiful point of view about the "jungle" where some illegals from Afganistan survive in Calais. Great-Britain is just in front of you.
Only in french. Court documentaire troublant à partir de la lettre d'une maîtresse d'école à propos d'un enfant expulsé de France. Toujours d'actualité trois ans plus tard.
Michel Serres parle des nouvelles technologies.
la suite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0bru4_fT8
Pour les passionnés, écouter "place de la toile" émission hebdomadaire sur France Culture.
Un atelier à propos de la Réinvention de la télévision, école Valand de Götenborg. Des nouveaux contenus pour la télé...
"Reinventing the Television" was a workshop, conducted by Niklas Roy, that happened at the art school Valand in Göteborg in February and March 2008.
The participants have taken old television housings and created new contents for those televisions, using used electronic and mechanical parts which were mostly find at the scrapyard.
Participants of the workshop were:
Angela Hoyos
Barrie Sutcliffe
Carolina Parra Thompson
Danai Vlachou
David Bramham
Eeva-Liisa Puhakka
Jonatan Winbo
Juan Hernandez
Martin Dahlström-Heuser
Tomoyuki Yago
and
Anna Kindvall (teacher at Valand)
Lectures //
Only in french