Patrice Kirchhofer Movies

“Breaking in. Patrice Kirchhofer’s Anorexie 4 continues on the path of the narrated narrative (a short story by Chandler) and...

A cinema encyclopedia. Yet another history of film.

Anarchism, Castroism, Maoism, while mingled. But what survives is Nihilism ! Alain Peyrefitte in the National Assembly, May 9, 1968

SENSITOMETRIE V, the first film that I saw by K., bored me to death… A black screen, a few rare profiles of a window… I couldn’t...

Hors Titre I (Off-Title I) is a hermetic movie deliberately mysterious. Figure interpreted by Stuart Sherman shines in the first part of the film by...

Found footage, edited from international news footage.

“Breaking in. Patrice Kirchhofer’s Anorexie 4 continues on the path of the narrated narrative (a short story by Chandler) and...

To approach a photo printed by Patrice Kirchhofer is frightening. I have long seen in them an agression by negligence. With patience, I found in them...

I had the sudden urge to run through the forest while watching ATARAXIE I. Upon returning home, I went straight to my dictionary to look up the...

Densité Optique I (Optical Density I) mark a chromatic decomposition of the image. The choice to show a scrolling film movie as an extreme...

The filmmaker intersects the flow of traffic on narrow streets and on the canals of a European city.

A barbaric feast of "Mad Masters" of our country hardly unexplored, originally on a very repetitive "kraft" music ....

Large visual elaborations of Kirchhofer means most simple devices and childish in cinema archeology, Thaumatrope the Praxinoscope, all optical toys....

First film made outside of pure animation, with all that it is possible to put and omit in a first film essay, which contains authoritatively - and...

The fist movie of the series "Sensitométrie" is an animated film. Animation techniques offers incredible possibilities of de-structuring an...

There are also film-shots, like "L'Envers", admirable montage between 1988 and 2005 from the voice of Jean-Luc Godard, Bob Dylan or Marlon Brando....

The misappropriation and use of information.

An experiment with color fields.