Christian Lebrat Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

"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....

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

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

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

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...

"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...