Antoine Viviani

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Antoine Viviani is a french filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Paris.

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Antoine Viviani
Nationality French
Occupation French filmmaker
Known for
  • Little Blue Nothing (documentary)
  • In Limbo (documentary)
Awards Doclab Award

Career

Viviani directed in 2011 In Situ [1] , a documentary essay about artistic interventions in the urban space in Europe, featuring artists, activists and philosophers. [2] It received the Doclab Award at IDFA in Amsterdam in 2011 [3] [4] and the Best Film Award at London Open City Documentary Festival in 2012. [5]

In 2015, Viviani produced and directed In Limbo, [6] [7] a documentary essay telling the story of a digital spirit, performed by the French-Canadian writer Nancy Huston, dissolving into the memory of the Internet. [8] The film stages Internet founding fathers and visionaries Gordon Bell, Brewster Kahle, Cathal Gurrin, and Ray Kurzweil [9] among many others, filmed as ghosts, using a special volumetric depth camera. [10] [11] An interactive online shortened version, In Limbo Interactive, was released by Arte and the NFB on a specific web-platform, where the viewer could connect its own data. [12] The film premiered in Nov. 2015 as part of the international competition of CPH:Dox in Copenhagen and received several awards. [13]

In 2019, Viviani created with Pierre Alain Giraud the location-based immersive art installation Solastalgia. Wearing a specific AR equipment, a group of 10 people explores a 400 square meter landscape of a deserted, post apocalyptic future where the last generations have decided to transform into ghosts, thanks to a machine, repeating the same gestures over and over again, haunting the planet forever. [14] Viviani has said to have been largely inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Morel Invention to write the experience. [15] Icelandic visual artist Gabriela Fridriksduttir, composer Valgeir Sigurdson and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir collaborated on the piece. [16] Solastalgia got selected in the 2020 New Frontier selection of the Sundance Film Festival [17] [18] and was exhibited at Champs Libres museum in Rennes, France, [19] and at The National Gallery of Iceland in June 2020. [20]

Works

Documentary

YearTitleRoleRef.
2009Little Blue NothingProducer and co-director with Vincent Moon [21]
2011In SituDirector and producer [22]
2015In LimboDirector and producer [23]

Awards and distinctions

Installation

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References

  1. ↑ ""In situ, les artistes dans la ville"". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  2. ↑ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam, Insitu | IDFA , retrieved 2020-12-08
  3. ↑ Túñez-López, Miguel; Martínez-Fernández, Valentín-Alejandro; López-García, Xosé; Rúas-Araújo, Xosé; Campos-Freire, Francisco (2018-07-10). Communication: Innovation & Quality. Springer. ISBN   978-3-319-91860-0.
  4. ↑ Zimmermann, Laura-Johanne (July 2015). Citizen Journalism Footage im Dokumentarfilm. Demokratiefördernde Potenziale dokumentarfilmischer Hybride (in German). Diplomica Verlag. ISBN   978-3-95934-712-9.
  5. ↑ "Insitu". MIT - Docubase. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  6. ↑ "Regardez " In limbo " et plongez dans le monde sensible des données". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  7. ↑ "In Limbo: a film by Antoine Viviani".
  8. ↑ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam, In Limbo | IDFA , retrieved 2021-02-19
  9. ↑ "The Internet, our most mysterious colossus". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  10. ↑ "IN LIMBO". MIT - Docubase. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  11. ↑ "Les Primeurs du Blog documentaire #8 : "Dans les limbes" - Antoine Viviani". Le Blog documentaire (in French). 2016-11-19. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  12. ↑ Pangburn, D. J. (2015-02-13). "Your Personal Data Forms the Basis of This Interactive Doc". Vice. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  13. ↑ "film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire". www.film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  14. ↑ Silverstone, Sophie (2020-01-28). "New Frontier Central at Sundance 2020 Catalytic Pick #1: Solastalgia". Catalyst Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  15. ↑ Silverstone, Sophie (2020-01-28). "New Frontier Central at Sundance 2020 Catalytic Pick #1: Solastalgia". Catalyst Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  16. ↑ "Solastalgia". Reykjavik Arts Festival. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  17. ↑ "solastalgia". www.sundance.org. Archived from the original on 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  18. ↑ Debruge, Janko Roettgers,Peter; Roettgers, Janko; Debruge, Peter (2019-12-12). "Sundance: 2020 New Frontier Program Features Underwater VR, Chomsky A.I." Variety. Retrieved 2021-02-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ↑ "Avec " Solastalgia ", Rennes plonge dans la fin du monde". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2019-11-09. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  20. ↑ "From Iceland — It's Possible To See What The Earth Will Look Like After The End Of Humanity". The Reykjavik Grapevine. 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  21. ↑ "Little Blue Nothing". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  22. ↑ Viviani, Antoine (2011-07-08), Insitu (Documentary), retrieved 2021-04-17
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