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* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2000}}|event=''Need Any Help?''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2000}}|event=''Need Any Help?''}}
Need Any Help? is a romantic roadmovie about the meeting of two lonely people, hampered by a chronic lack of time, trapped in the dramatic Norwegian fjords.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2001}}|event=''Madonna with Child''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2001}}|event=''Madonna with Child''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=''{{lang|fr|Pommes d’amour}}''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=''{{lang|fr|Pommes d’amour}}''}}
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* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2002}}|event=''Yellow Mellow''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2002}}|event=''Yellow Mellow''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=''{{lang|fr|Bataille}}''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=''{{lang|fr|Bataille}}''}}
A scene from Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, in which two samurai clench on to each other, turns into a shadow-fight between themselves and the cosmos.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=''{{lang|fr|Papillon d’amour}}''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=''{{lang|fr|Papillon d’amour}}''}}
By subjecting fragments from the film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa to the mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinating scene of a woman‘s reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. Papillon d’amour produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities and wounded act of disappearance.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event=''Oh Dear''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event=''Oh Dear''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event=''Exoticore''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event=''Exoticore''}}
Exoticore is a touching tale about modern-day people trying to find their place in the world. A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to find emotional and economical prosperity in Norwegian society. A dark journey into exoticism.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2006}}|event=''The Divers''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2006}}|event=''The Divers''}}
Provost more often makes use of the sister disciplines of video art as a reference for the viewer, most notably using those aspects that are etched in our collective cultural memory. The narration in this tableau vivant is told by the dramatic and passionate firework background that contrasts with the inability of the young couple to express their feelings in the foreground.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Induction''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Induction''}}
Disconcerting, mysterious family drama where the paths of a shaman, a lonely woman and a young boy cross and slip away. Provost creates an alarming world filled with fear, sexuality and alienation, eagerly exploiting the manipulative opportunities offered by cinema and the sensorial shock it engenders.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Suspension''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Suspension''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Gravity''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Gravity''}}
The cinematic kiss is probably one of the most archetypical images to be found in film history. Playing with the physiological and cinematographic principle of the after-image, Provost causes dozens of kissing scenes from European and American film classics to collide. The reassuring world of multiplied kisses is shattered by a stroboscopic effect that plunges and looses us into the dizzying vertigo of the embrace where love becomes a passionate battle in which monsters are finally unmasked.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Plot Point}} - nominated for the European Film Academy Awards
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=''Plot Point}} - nominated for the European Film Academy Awards
Filmed with a hidden camera, the crowded streets of New York City turn into a highly dramatised narrative construction in which unaware passers and the NYPD become the stars of a fiction film that suggests a suspenseful and emotional tension curve.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}}|event=''Long Live the New Flesh}} - competed at the Berlinale 2010
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}}|event=''Long Live the New Flesh}} - competed at the Berlinale 2010
Long Live the New Flesh uses datamoshing, a digital technique with painterly quality in which the images literally consume one another, and transmogrifies found footage horror films into a new emotional story and a new visual experience
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=''Storyteller''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=''Storyteller''}}
Storyteller recomposes aerial shots from the Las Vegas casino skyline manoeuvring and influencing the interpretation of images, carefully balancing between the figurative and the abstract.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=''Abstract Action''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=''Abstract Action''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=''Stardust''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=''Stardust''}}
Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes and narrative tools from the Hollywood film language. The award winning Plot Point (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in Stardust and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and turns the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}}|event=''Moving Stories''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}}|event=''Moving Stories''}}
Moving Stories strings together scenes of flying passenger airplanes. In this short study of the dramatic and narrative power of image and sound, Provost manipulates the cinema lingo and reaches, through minimal means, a strongly emotionally loaded result. With a limited number of images, an absorbing soundtrack and a suggestive story line, the viewer’s imagination is stimulated to the maximum.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2013}}|event=''Tokyo Giants''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2013}}|event=''Tokyo Giants''}}
Subverting dramaturgical conventions in his Plot Point trilogy, Provost presents the man in the street as a film protagonist. After New York (Plot Point) and Las Vegas (Stardust) he takes his hidden camera to the hyperkinetic streets of Tokyo in search for the mystery of reality. A serial killer, a rapist, a terrorist, a cult, the Yakuza, all have in common that their paths cross and merge into a powerful climax that cannot be resolved.
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2013}}|event=''The Dark Galleries''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2013}}|event=''The Dark Galleries''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2014}}|event=''The Painters''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2014}}|event=''The Painters''}}
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* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}}|event=''The Invader''}}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}}|event=''The Invader''}}
Amadou, a strong and charismatic African man, is washed up on a beach in southern Europe. Fate leads him to Brussels where, full of optimism, he tries to make a better life for himself. Exploited by traffickers, his daily life is slowly drained of hope, until he meets Agnès, a beautiful and brilliant businesswoman.She is seduced by his charm and force of character, while he projects all his hope and dreams onto her. The illusion quickly shatters, and Agnès breaks all contact with Amadou, who little by little sinks into destructive violence, struggling with his inner demons.<ref>http://www.nicolasprovost.com/films/482/</ref>


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Nicolas Provost
Born1969
Ronse, Belgium
Occupation(s)Film and video artist

Nicolas Provost (born 1969, Ronse, Belgium[1]) is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in New York and Brussels.

His works are in a number of collections, including The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, who share Storyteller (2010),[2][3] SMAK Gent[1] and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[1]

His short film Suspension received an honorable mention at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.[4] He has also exhibited at The San Francisco International Film Festival, CineVegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Viennale, and The Locarno Film Festival.[5]

His first feature film, The Invader, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.[6]

He has lived in Belgium and Norway, and as of 2013, resides in New York.[1]

The artist and the oeuvre

[7]

Nicolas Provost’s work reflects on the grammar of cinema, the human condition in our collective film memory and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films provoke both recognition and alienation and succeed in catching our expectations into an unravelling game of mystery and abstraction. With manipulations of time, codes and form, cinematographic and narrative language are sculpted into new stories.

In 2003 Nicolas Provost (born in Ronse, Belgium) moved back to Belgium after a 10 years stay in Norway. He now lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions include The Seattle Art Museum, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison London and Berlin. His work has been acquired by major museums including the Birmingham Museum, SMAK Gent and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium. His work has earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals including The Sundance Film Festival, The Venice Film Festival, The Berlinale, The San Sebastian Film Festival and The Locarno Film Festival. His critically acclaimed first feature film ‘The Invader’ had its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011. He recently completed the ‘Plot Point’ trilogy, 3 fiction films he shot with a hidden camera in New York, Las Vegas and Tokyo.

Filmography

Shorts

Provost's short films include:[6][8]

  • 2000 (2000): Need Any Help?
  • 2001 (2001): Madonna with Child
  • 2003 (2003): Pommes d’amour
  • 2002 (2002): I Hate This Town
  • 2002 (2002): Yellow Mellow
  • 2003 (2003): Bataille
  • 2003 (2003): Papillon d’amour
  • 2004 (2004): Oh Dear
  • 2004 (2004): Exoticore
  • 2006 (2006): The Divers
  • 2007 (2007): Induction
  • 2007 (2007): Suspension
  • 2007 (2007): Gravity
  • 2007 (2007): Plot Point - nominated for the European Film Academy Awards
  • 2009 (2009): Long Live the New Flesh - competed at the Berlinale 2010
  • 2010 (2010): Storyteller
  • 2010 (2010): Abstract Action
  • 2010 (2010): Stardust
  • 2011 (2011): Moving Stories
  • 2013 (2013): Tokyo Giants
  • 2013 (2013): The Dark Galleries
  • 2014 (2014): The Painters
  • 2014 (2014): Illumination

Features

  • 2011 (2011): The Invader

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Biography". Nicolas Provost. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Storyteller by Nicolas Provost -". Art Fund. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  3. ^ Acquisition supporting statement, The New Art Gallery Walsall archives
  4. ^ "Vlaming Nicholas Provost valt in de prijzen op Sundance Filmfestival". Humo (in Dutch). Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  5. ^ "Nicolas Provost". Moving Stories in Europe. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Nicolas Provost - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013". Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  7. ^ http://www.nicolasprovost.com/biography/bio/
  8. ^ "Festival de San Sebastián - Nicolas Provost". Retrieved 9 May 2013.

External links

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