Jean-Michel Bouhours

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

Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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

Chantilly Revisited combines the slow-motion images of the film Chantilly (1976) and the original painted elements. It is a work of deconstruction of...

A cinema experience with sun, wind and a piece of cloth as the only elements. Man's experience of the play of light and movement preceded not only...

In The Strange Story of Peter Schlemihl written in 1813 by Adelbert von Chamisso, out of necessity of money, the hero decides to sell his shadow to...

The Jaleo is a summer festival on the island of Menorca (Spain) based on a parade of horses native to the island and exemplary docility, ridden by...

The history of modern painting includes white paintings . So why not a "white film"? This film includes images, from the oldest Romanesque cloister...

It was while proceeding with the digital restoration of the film CHANTILLY produced in 1976 that the idea for this project came about. Originally the...

According to Hesiod, autumn begins when the Pleiades, the daughters of Atlas, rise. It is generally said that autumn is the most beautiful of the...

A meditative film on a composite A+B image. Image B will be in turn an extract from a film by Vittorio de Sica (DUE DONNE), the sun in the trees, the...

The psychomotor development of a young child followed between the ages of 8 and 18 months serves as a reminder of how this extraordinary potential...

NOCES DE SANG is a tribute to Spanish culture, to the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca and to the cinema of Carlos Saura. New experiments were tried...

Experimental, 16mm

To construct a film in an atomic way, starting from simple elements which combined with each other will produce a whole. Taking the dot as an...

This is my first film based on the unity of the photogram, started in the fall of 1975 and finished at the very beginning of the following year. What...

"Chronoma was conceived as a follow-up to Rythmes 76: its composition is still inspired by the repetitive processes of Steve Reich's music, with...

The invention of the cinematograph by Louis and Auguste Lumière in 1895 marked the culmination - synthesis, standardisation and...

In the summer of 1914, Collioure was a small, quiet fishing village, sheltered from the convulsions of a blazing Europe. Matisse painted a curious...

It is an attempt to put in representation of my own universe, my "I" being defined through friends filmed in familiar sets. This film precedes the...

Found footage film, on the theme of the Spanish Civil War and the popular song "Ay, Carmela !" (or "El Paso del Ebro"), a song composed in 1808...

Autonomous part of the film UNDER THE SIGN OF THE LION, corresponding to the letter L. Camera obscura experience. Capture the light ray, place it in...