28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ONDE - CORTOMETRAGGI

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
by Nicolas Provost
Country: Belgium
Year: 2009
Duration: 14'


long live the new flesh

Our worst film-generated nightmares come together on the screen and, starting with the hallucinated face of Jack Nicholson in Shining, bring to life a macabre dance of horror in which the forms contaminate each other. The pixels divide and separate the images, which enter into each other, take on color and become spots that are almost indistinct but no less striking than the typical elements of the genre. The soundtrack accompanies this flow between the films, in which one film feeds off the preceding one and helps create a new story with the severed limbs of various cult horror movies.

 

“Since the existence of movies on DVD-discs, I’ve always been fascinated by random moments that happen when the last image of a scene freezes and gets dragged the following one. I decided to control these errors and I quickly found out that using horror footage was appropriate to this effect because the images seemed to eat each other and it would be a challenge to make something beautiful out of explicit horrifying images. Another challenge was how to keep the tension curve going and how to make a story using scenes from different horror genres.”

Biography

film director

Nicolas Provost

Nicolas Provost (Brussels, Belgium, 1969) graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent in 1994. In 2003, his short Papillon d’amour received a special mention at the Sundance Film Festival, where three years later he competed with his film Exoticore, which was awarded the prize as best European film at the Short Film Festival in Vendôme and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Asian International Shortfilm Festival. In 2008, Plot Point won the Special Jury Prize at the International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand and also won the prize as best European film at the Short Film Festival in Vendôme. In 2009, the Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to him.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography

Need Any Help? (cm, 2000), Madonna with Child (cm, 2001), Pommes d’amour (cm, 2001), I Hate This Town (cm, 2002), Yellow Mellow (cm, 2002), Bataille (cm, 2003), Papillon d’amour (cm, 2003), Oh Dear... (cm, 2004), Exoticore (cm, 2004), The Divers (cm, 2006), Induction (cm, 2006), Suspension (cm, 2007), Gravity (cm, 2007), Plot Point (cm, 2007), Long Live the New Flesh (cm, 2010), Storyteller (cm, 2010), Abstract Action (cm, 2010), Stardust (cm, 2010).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio, suono, produttore/director, screenplay, film editing, sound, producer

Nicolas Provost

produzione/production 

Weltvertrieb siehe Produktion

vendita all’estero/world sales

Argos


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