Aude Fourel

I have read one day the story of an aboriginal legend according to which, each ancestor leaves behind him a sinuous path full of songs and spirit-children. When a person walks along the trail of his ancestor, it brings back the songs and stories of the earth. And if a child is born from the journey, he becomes the child of these songs.

I went to Tunisia and Algeria to collect songs and popular stories of the Revolution of Independence, on the trail of a family memory and the vinyl record of the Italian anarchist group Cantacronache "Canti della Rivoluzione algerina".

Film Kodak TRI-X, Kodak Vision 50T, HDV, Telecinema HD.
Duration: 58'53
2019

In the collections of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (France).

Official selection: FID Marseille 2019; Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage 2019; Les Inattendus 2020; Rencontres du film des résistances 2019.

Other screenings : Ciné-Club PSL/Filmer le champ social - cinéma Espace Saint-Michel (Paris); Cinemadart (Tunis); Cinéma Occupé La Clef Revival (Paris); Cycle "Gai Savoir" / CNAP - Silencio (Paris); Lux Valence Scène Nationale; Cinémathèque de Saint-Etienne; Cinémathèque de Grenoble.

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(Through Rome)

This short film was made from tailing situations shot in super 8 and from sound walks recorded in the city of Rome in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Walking and shooting across Rome aimed to search for the necessity that ties the geography between gaps of the city, the movement of the walk and the movement of images. A work literally in progress focused on the walking exercise and the accumulation of video, sound and cinematic marks: so that Rome emerges eventually...

Official selection: Festival Darkroom Project (Italy), Festival Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire (Lussas, France), International Festival of Contemporary Art Jeune Création 2013 (Paris, France), Festival Traverse Vidéo 2014 (Toulouse, France), Festival de films d’artistes Silhouette 2014 (Paris, France), International City Film Festival, Institut Français de Naples (Italy).

Film Kodak TRI-X. Telecinema HD.
Duration: 20'
2013

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"Small histories, the ones that people in flesh and bones live, are almost always the denial of official history that ignores them. And yet, their tales are the most significant incarnation of that history, the metaphor that contains its meaning and reveals its resistant and partisan mark. It is the only tale that can restore the understanding of the events that matters in each and everyone's life." (Barbara Balzerani)

In front of a weaving loom, ordinary images and tales resist and uncoil like a taut and delicate thread.
With the support of Saint-Etienne Film Library and the association Vive la Tase (Vaux-en-Velin).

Official selection: Festival Detour on the road, Rome, December 2014 ; Exhibition "Frontières, Zacharie Gaudrillot Roy, Aude Fourel, Eva Ramfel", Maison des Arts Plastiques in Champigny sur Marne, (December 2014 – February 2015).

Film Kodak TRI-X, Telecinema HD, Archive movies.
Duration : 4'30
2014

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Performance of a projection made in May 2012.
Projection of a tailing situation shot in super 8 film in the streets of Rome in September 2011.
Super 8 film KODAK TRI-X.
Soundtrack extracted from Mamma Roma directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
To invert the “face to back” of a tailing situation. Body-image, body-camera, body-screen. Wandering walks without a face. Night walk, Anna Magnani facing the camera, the voice of an obvious face.

Official selection: Festival Darkroom Project (Italy), Festival Pontino Short Film (Italy), Festival Molise Cinema (Italy), International Festival of Contemporary Art Jeune Création 2013 (Paris, France), Festival Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse, France).

Duration: 2’43
2012

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Filmed performance and sound records made in July 2011 in Tuscania (Italy).
Original musical creation from Luca Venitucci.
Super 8 film Kodak TRI-X. HD Telecinema.
The missing face self-portrait. Print(s). Projection(s). Black screen.
“Design your movie on the white, the silence and immobility.”
(Robert Bresson, Notes on the cinematographer)

Official selection: Festival Darkroom Project (Italy), International Festival of Contemporary Art Jeune Création 2013 (Paris, France), Festival Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse, France).

Duration: 2’14
2011

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