Rare Selection of Shorts

This is a selection of highly acclaimed, award-winning shorts from Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Provost, who is a phenomenal and often confrontational imagist.

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Programme of films

We'll show a 90 minute programme of shorts, that we've especially selected for the night. Some of the shorts that we'll show include:

Storyteller (2011)

Moving Stories (2011)

Stardust (2010)

Long Live the New Flesh (2009)

Plot Point (2007)

Gravity (2007)

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILMS

Long Live The New Flesh (14 min, 2009) - Horror Films

Embracing the real and the perceived as a beautiful and natural hybrid, Provost’s work has often employed stock material from other films, rearranging and manipulating it in order to reveal its hidden narrative potential and to allow it to exist in new and exciting ways. 

In Long Live the New Flesh, Provost uses found footage from classic cinema, from horror classics such as The Shining, Videodrome, The Thing, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He then uses a digital technique where the images appear to smash and bleed into one another. Brilliantly disturbing, and disturbingly brilliant.

Plot Point (15 min, 2007) - Street Footage

Other works, meanwhile look to the dazzling fabric of everyday life for their imagistic and cinematic intensity. In Plot Point, Provost shoots everyday observational footage (with a hidden camera) and then uses storytelling devices from mainstream Hollywood cinema to create a fictional film. Through Provost’s camera lens an average day in Times Square becomes the setting for a brooding, intense police thriller.

Gravity (6 min, 2007) - The Cinematic Kiss

From Nicolas Provost's website:

"The cinematic kiss is probably one of the most archetypical images to be found in film history. Playing with the physiological and cinematographic principle of the after-image, Provost causes dozens of fast-edited kissing scenes from European and American film classics to collide. The reassuring world of multiplied cinematographic kisses is shattered by a stroboscopic effect that plunges and looses us into the dizzying vertigo of the embrace where, as often in Provost’s cinema, love becomes a passionate battle in which monsters are finally unmasked."

Bataille (2011) - footage from Kurosawa's Rashomon

Below is a photo from BATAILLE, for which Provost used footage from Kurosawa's Rashomon, and edited it as if a mirror was going through it.

"BATAILLE represents a collision between extremely violent male forms, pitching into each other as mythical monsters."

Artist quotes

“How do you surprise an audience today when they’ve seen so much after 120 years of cinema?” So asked award-winning Nicolas Provost in an interview earlier this year. 

“The most beautiful thing I discovered is the fine line between fiction and reality. The moment in which the audience asks themselves ‘is this real or is this fiction? I think it’s very strong feeling where you can see the magic dimension of reality and I believe that’s what it’s all about.” - NICOLAS PROVOST

With Provost’s debut feature The Invader impressing at festivals earlier this year, you shouldn’t miss this rare chance to catch these intensely provocative shorts on the big screen.