INTRODUCTION
By Cécile Fontaine

MOUVEMENT N°2
1983 | super 8 | color | silent | 1'35
One of the first experiment with the camera and with the editing splicer. A fast edited film using materials from several 3 min films shot in the streets of Boston.

A COLOR MOVIE
1983 | super 8 | color | silent | 4'43
Film combining short sequences shot with the camera by myself and short ones created on underexposed materials manipulated with the artist's tools or coming from reels shot by my father. It's a «suite» of visual experiments edited with an overexposed self-portrait.

LA CHAMBRE VERTE
1984 | super 8 | color/b&w | silent | 4'23 Bleached super 8 film shot by Fontaine herself and recovered with new's paper prints and pulp.

3 SHORTS
1984 | super 8 | color | silent | 5'24
• L'ATELIER DE PEINTURE
Live action combined with manipulation of the film by bleaching or displacing the emulsion side, and with collage of acetate or 35mm slides.
• CHURCH
Live action manipulated with «ammonia base detergent».
• SUBJECT: SOUND COLOR PICTURE
Found Footage recut into S-8mm and edited on an academy leader structure.

LIGHT
1986 | super 8 | color | silent | 3'18
First personal experiment of a super 8 film roll manually exposed (without a camera) to a luminous source. This experiment has been repeated in several other short super 8 rolls by changing some parameters at the exposition. Abstract film in color.

LE DÉJEUNER SUR L'HERBE
1986 | super 8 | color | silent | 0'57
One of the first Super 8 made from materials by my father (home movie of the 70's) which emulsion has been peeled up from its base and taped on a new surface, in a different manner.

HOME MOVIE
1986 | 16mm | color | silent | 5'00
Retrieving a family movie of the 50’s bought in a shop of second-hand objects. After being filmed in black and white, the original was decomposed and recomposed by gluing the new black and white support.

CRUISES
1989 | 16mm | color | sound | 7'50
A collage film in three parts, interlacing films through genres and sources of various eras.

LA PÊCHE MIRACULEUSE
1995 | 16mm | color | silent | 10’00
Tourism in the Seychelles’ islands, under-water shots of marine life, facts from educational slides, bleached ektakrome films, 16 mm frames, super 8 strips, these are the the images and material which led us from the seaport to the plate; we look at the sea world trough the layers and juxtaposition of taped strips of emulsion from various sources.

SILVER RUSH
1998 | 16mm | color | sound | 8'00
A rush sequences (rushes) from different sources: fiction, documentaries and commercials. This film features hunts of all kinds, in the mythical scenery of the American West.
THE LAST LOST SHOT
1999 | 16mm | color | sound | 7'00
Commissioned for the film event exhibition on the subject of the "Apocalysm" in cinema, this found footage film is essentialy constructed around the strongly altered images of ball-trap sequences for a demonstration film on fire-arms, humorously juxtaposed to images of innocence illustrated by children type drawings on seasonal tales and by fragments of two advertisings films: one on a natural reservation in the Seychelles Islands; the other, a "cartoon", for raincoats, related to the biblical flood.

CROSS WORLDS
2006 | 16mm | color | sound | 15'00
Criss crossing of images from professional (16 documentaries) and anonymous amateur (8mm home and holiday movies) filmmakers juxtaposing different geographical areas peopled or locals or tourists inactivities of hard work or leisure.

Q&A
With Cécile Fontaine