Olivier Fouchard

July, 14th, 1789, then 1989 and its media coveraged bicentenary. Here a 16mm July 14th in order to wake up the sleepers and to tell them that the...

A 16mm film printed flat, with the light (the flickers) of an empty lighter, in the darkness of my bathroom. Home-made printing, without a printer...

Selfportrait. Video without computer. Sound but silent (no speakers). Pain can express itself by a visual shriek, and no words.

I'm watching a film by Mahine and Fouchard. Magnificent! Archaic, mystical, essential. To be programmed some day with Pier Paolo Pasolini's UCCELLACI...

This new version of LE GRANIER was made by assembling out-takes from the first version (LE GRANIER, PAYSAGE ETUDE N°1). Certain sequences of both...

The images of this "handcrafted and DIY" film were either recovered or filmed by me. Originally in black and white, they were brutally treated in...

Experimental filmic exercise: analyzes the sun rays with the «eyes shut» vision and with «blinking» eye lids. This...

A grand and mythical landscape tries to get rid of its past. A cleansing, a rebirth on celluloid. - IFFR

"Days and nights" of work and rest in my flat set up as my workshop. For those who still believe that a free artistic activity (here the...

These images are camera essays and exercises that Mahine had shot. This is also the portrait of director Birgit Schiemann whose face was demolished...

Film-model being edited: work in progress, 26-03-2019.

In FANTÔMES, Olivier FOUCHARD brings a new variation to the genre film, he invents the "cinematheque film".

Experimental short by Olivier Fouchard

A reworking of The Posthumous Flatulence of Yevgeny Sokolov, a re-edit and completely new color-grading with elimination of the soundtrack. The film...

When I was a child, my mother, faced with my melancholy and angry attitude (...), registered me at the Decroly center in Lille to consult a...

Images of sounds. Resynchronisation attempt during film print.

This short film was recorderd during a japanese experimental film screening at the 102. Shot in Fuji Single 8. According to the filmmaker, the real...

A silent multicoloured explosion. Hand-painted, it is evocative of stained-glass windows and could serve as a posthumous tribute to Stan Brakhage's...

This little film is the recalibrated edit of a small reel of kodachrome 40 super 8 which has been abandoned in a damp corner in a cinema in Brussels...

Experimental short film by Olivier Fouchard.

Experimental film by Olivier Fouchard.

This film is designed to be unwound on a reel and read through the film (light table). Can also be projected.

This little film was blown up from Super 8 to 16mm Kodachrome, and was shot frame by frame on the balcony of the 15th floor of the Bourcry tower....

A blazingly hot film, painted by hand in the summer heat.

This amusing little film in the Fouchardian tradition of short music videos and dancing prefigures the announced fall of the bourgeois empire of...

A digital re-edit of the film "LE GRANIER"

In Le Granier, the earth is living, is suffering and is full of history. The still camera shows a tired mountain which seems to hide a sacred secret....

Starting from waste from the pornographic film industry of the seventies of the last century which I first sent to rot in a basin of water before...

Anthropocenes, magic mountains, earthquakes... Cosmic events in the multiverse and a vision of the universe, of Gaia (Earth), of...

Tribute to Pierre Druesnes (1956-2022) "It’s not about painting on postage stamps… But if you only have a postage stamp to express...

Carrion Remember the object we saw, my soul, This beautiful summer morning so sweet: At the bend of a path an infamous carrion On a bed strewn...

The pace of the film, step by step, sometimes blind, sometimes radiant, a one-way ticket, long before or after the story itself, brings the image to...

A self-portrait which erases itself, leaving place to a dance of luminous rhythms.

Few years ago (1987 - 88), I've been "victim" of chronic hallucinations. In front of the mirror, I was able to see my face distorting itself and...

Directed by Olivier Fouchard.

The Blue Walk is a silent, experimental narrative fiction film by Olivier Fouchard.

Two bodies, or rather, two women hiding in the darkness. Sometimes they light each other up, sometimes they play hide and seek in the half-light....

"A form emerging from the cinematographic material paces mountain trails. Singular irruption that disappears and blends into nature and its...

9,5>16 is with no doubt the achievement of film researches conducted ten years ago on «rayograms» (see Man Ray's...

"Capitalism is always more profit for the sake of profit, it is not a relevant idea" Nicolas REY "MONEY, VERSION 2" is an inhuman, violent and idiot...

"The gesture of making a film is as simple as that of appropriating what one has at hand, including the old principle of recovery that is practiced...

The more the film is scratched, the more it exists!

"Aubrac-Rushes is a video of re-filmed images, which we watch as if flicking through a sketchbook of drawings executed in pencil, charcoal, graphite...

"Art is like a spray of pollen, like life itself, my sole reward is to be understood by a handful of people" Jean COCTEAU 03/07/1948 in Les...

"Yâd: the memory. Childhood memory strucks by the war. The adult finds comfort and support rapt of contemplation over wild landscapes and...

Erotic and « sleepy » dreams...

Self-portrait through a tour of the filmmaker's studio.

Experimental short

Solar flares, eclipses, and explosions hand-painted directly onto the negative. The film was slowed down using a Truca and developed at the...

Asexual creatures frolic left and right before the eyes of little children? A film that explores, in a light and amusing manner, what Walt Disney...

“Sketch XXX (work in progress)” in addition to its “poetic” and “political” content also brings the spectator to...

An approach to the different beliefs and representations of God assimilated to light. Light being associated with Spirit in the Coran. The issue of...

Double tribute and double pillage, image & sound Images pilfered from Steven Woloshen Music nicked from Lucio Bukowski

WARNING: In the '80s of the last century, I was about 12 years old and my mother was worried about my psychological disorders with mild paranoid...

Flea market found footage with sound from the French radio bought low priced at the Emmaüs of Grenoble in 1995. This film is about desire... And...

Super 8 experimentations about the theme of self-portrait.

This is a short film edited with excerpts from the film ASTRES ET DÉSASTRES (2023-24). The 16mm and 35mm scans were produced by Light Cone as...

Experimental cinema is the art of surprising yourself with your eyes in the carpet... – OF to SMDL, 02-12-2024.