Christian Lebrat

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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9 key moving image works created by filmmaker Christian Lebrat over a ten-year period (1976-1985). Each film focus on an aspect of his...

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Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique...

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V5 (Zip-Zap) progresses via a tight, interweaving montage of rapid sequences, which were filmed directly from a CRT TV screen.

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Filmed unexpectedly on the port of Genoa, the jazz music resonates with the lights of the city. The video loop, multiplied and worked on during the...

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Swallowed in the emptiness with a dull and gloomy noise, the face gradually vanishes with a recurring rocking motion.

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Filmed at night, with no manipulation. The hypnotic effect of the image, composed of abstracts motifs, in dialogue with the enigmatic sound track,...

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This film is part of the Twenty Puccini Project."A cellist freely interprets a few famous themes from Puccini's La Bohème. A camera films the...

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A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann...

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Very little was left of the film by Anne Prat, a brilliant student who studied cinema with me at the University of Paris in the 1970s. Anne Prat was...

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First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a...

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In Organisation II, the vertical colored strips (red, yellow, and blue) whose height matches that of the screen move laterally while flickering on...

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Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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"A city, its crowds; crowds processed on film then transferred to video. I used a technique particular to video to manipulate a vertical section of...

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"I found that soundtrack abandonned on a shelf in an editing room. It had been hanging about there for a few weeks before I decided to listen to it....

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"Christian Lebrat said he thought of Monet, who painted with the series Water Lilies colors ‘at the edge of the visible;’ those of Holon...

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"In the 1990 text on his film Autoportrait au dispositif (1981), Lebrat wrote that all his films are in fact self-portraits, including those that are...

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"In Trama, Lebrat divides a surface vertically to be filmed in six equal segments of color (yellow, red, blue, green, violet, orange). The...

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The densest film of the divided-frame group is the aptly titled 1978 Networks, which includes as many as 20 exposures of the same roll of film. Here...

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First works with pure color. The slits are organized into vertical Yellow-Red-Blue strips which move laterally across the screen according to a...

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Anamorphoses of television images combined with fragments from Jerome Bosch’s Garden of Delights painting.

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For the films in which Lebrat divided the screen he placed a piece of paper with one or more slits in it in front of the lens, allowing only a narrow...

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