provostcation
def: (provostcation) The transformation which any image goes through after contact with Nicolas Provost’s eyes, brains, ears or hands. It is a cinema term, even though that still suggests an hour and a half long film to most people. If we say audio-visuals, numerous artefacts connected with sound and image come to mind. We’re talking about a wider, more open and freer idea of audio-visuals. Although it is undeniable that “traditional cinema” has widened its frontiers in recent years and taken in many new ideas about formats and arrangements.
Nicolas Provost, who started off making videos, is a clear example of the transformation of current cinema. Provost’s recent and marvellous film L’Envahisseur was shown during the San Sebastian Film Festival. He dared to make a film about immigration from a special, atypical point of view. It’s huge. For many people, it’s his first film. But that isn’t right. Provost made loads of films before this, in many different formats and of different lengths, and his films have amazed people all over the world. He makes two main types of cinema. One is aesthetic, experimenting with form and kaleidoscopic images (Stardust 2010, Suspension 2007, Gravity 2007, Papillon d ́amour 2003...). In those films he showed how the character of images can be changed by manipulating them. The second plays with narrative and images (Storyteller 2010, Long Live the New Flesh 2009, Plot Point 2007...). In those films, using randomly shot documentary filmage in collage, he breaks down codes, creates narratives, invents audio-visual grammar and builds new fiction with incredible skill.
Provost’s “first film” is worth seeing, but we particularly recommend his previous audio-visual work. You can see it on his website and we’re sure you won’t regret it.
www.nicolasprovost.com
Nicolas Provost, who started off making videos, is a clear example of the transformation of current cinema. Provost’s recent and marvellous film L’Envahisseur was shown during the San Sebastian Film Festival. He dared to make a film about immigration from a special, atypical point of view. It’s huge. For many people, it’s his first film. But that isn’t right. Provost made loads of films before this, in many different formats and of different lengths, and his films have amazed people all over the world. He makes two main types of cinema. One is aesthetic, experimenting with form and kaleidoscopic images (Stardust 2010, Suspension 2007, Gravity 2007, Papillon d ́amour 2003...). In those films he showed how the character of images can be changed by manipulating them. The second plays with narrative and images (Storyteller 2010, Long Live the New Flesh 2009, Plot Point 2007...). In those films, using randomly shot documentary filmage in collage, he breaks down codes, creates narratives, invents audio-visual grammar and builds new fiction with incredible skill.
Provost’s “first film” is worth seeing, but we particularly recommend his previous audio-visual work. You can see it on his website and we’re sure you won’t regret it.
www.nicolasprovost.com
