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Since 2003 I create short, abstract, silent video poems.

I see these videos as "photographies with time added" because they are closer to still images: fix shot, no camera movement, no editing / seamless editing. They are the result of an instant, a specific place and time captured by the camera. None of them are planed, the recording happened as a result of a moment.
In 2004 I started to ask musicians to produce a soundtrack for them.
Each musician have to:

  • Decide on which video(s) to work on.
  • Choose which music would fit the best.
  • Give me an audio file of the exact length of the video, title included.

The idea is to change how the viewer perceives an image depending on its musical component
The result is a series of more than 50 videos.

Clic on the musician's name to play the corresponding version of the video.

F'Hain

3min01s, 2014, Berlin

Music by ...........

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Rond

2min05s, 2013, Lithuania

Music by ...........

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Téléportation

3min06s, 2013, Cologne

Music by ...........

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Bridge

3min28s, 2012, ICE, Germany, Somewhere

Music by ...........

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Voyage

2min13s, 2014, ICE, Germany, Somewhere

Music by ...........

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301

56s, 2006, Berlin

Music by Davidly and Noisiv

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Bamboo

1min38s, 2005, Macau

Music by Lifeloop and Mangrove Kipling

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Blumen

2min20s, 2004, Berlin

Music by John Morin, Lifeloop, Sciss and Sho

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Bug

1min32s, 2003, Nantes

Music by John Morin and Michael Schmake,

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Commerce

2min09s, 2003, Nantes

Music by Lifeloop

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Die Nacht

2min23s, 2006, NYC

Music by Mangrove Kipling, Michael Schmake and p.s stamps back

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G-D

1min12s, 2006, Berlin

Music by Jörn Schulz, Michael Schmake and Richard Scott

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Hope

1min10s, 2004, Macau

Music by Davidly, i-o and Lifeloop

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Loire

2min30s, 2003, Nantes

Music by Noisiv

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Plan

1min53s, 2003, Nantes

Music by Davidly, Julien Quentel, Lifeloop, Richard Scott, Sciss and Yoann Trellu

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Rouge

1min13s, 2003, Nantes

Music by Lifeloop, Mangrove Kipling, Yoann Trellu

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Score

0min53s, 2004, San Francisco

Music by Lifeloop

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Shades of Light

3min53s, 2003, Nantes

Music by Basile Feriot and Lifeloop

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Spring MA

2min26s, 2006, Northampton, MA

Music by Davidly, p.s stamp back, Sciss and Tetsuroh Konishi

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Twin

0min51s, 2004, San Francisco

Music by Lifeloop

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Urban Slide

2min05s, 2004, Hong Kong

Music by Davidly, Julien Quentel, Lifeloop, Mangrove Kipling, Sciss and Yoann Trellu

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Vacances

1min41s, 2003, Nantes

Music by Yoann Trellu,

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Vagues

1min44s, 2003, Nantes

Music by Lifeloop, Richard Scott, Sciss and Yoann Trellu

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Window

4min58s, 2005, Berlin

Music by Julien Quentel and Richard Scott

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Winter

2min01s, 2005, Berlin

Music by Davidly and Tetsuroh Konishi

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