Selection of short films by Annick Blavier, 2003-2020

Interview with Annick Blavier

Filmer seul-e, “La Revue Documentaires” no. 26-27, 2016

[ 4-page pdf ]

Une vie toute simple

Production, sketches, texts: Annick Blavier
Editing: Els van Riel, Annick Blavier
Music and sounds: composer Guy de Bièvre
Duration 30', 2020

3'45'' trailer

To view the short film on Vimeo, please contact me:
→  annick @ annick-blavier.org

Le contraire de faire un drame

First version
Duration 8', 2011
Revised on 20 September 2012

Petites histoire en décalage

Photographs: Annick Blavier in Berlin from 2000 to 2009
Editing: Olivier Burlet
Duration 13', 2010

Une excursion à Ostende

Production: Annick Blavier
Editing: Thomas Duquet
With the participation of Marie-France Martin and Patricia Martin
Duration 11'20'', 2009

The twin sisters, Marie-France and Patricia Martin, wanted to go to spend the day in Ostend, mythical Belgian seaside resort. Unfortunately, they did never arrived at Ostend but were diverted to Blankenberge. They remember... Improbable voyage: all is in the manner of telling. In counterpoint of their account, fragments of images in shift of two young women sitting in a train leaving towards Ostend...

Short film screened during the Non, pas ce soir evening organized by Editions la trame and Scam at the Théâtre Mercelis in Brussels, 2009.

Le fil s'est perdu

Production: Annick Blavier
Editing: Linda Ibbari
Duration 13', 2009

“Captured here and there, ‘stolen’ images everyday, filmed principaly in contrepoint from which are red or written short japonese poems, haïku, that is the materiel of my video. I like to work in the space of the crack in same time the tension between the image and the texte in a relationship of a decalage interest me. A mix of prose and poetry, fiction and reality like the haïku, my video would like to be a celebration of the instant and in the same time a mocking laugh in face of the absurdity of existence; Moments sketches as if one drawns in a drawning book ‘small visual sentences in kaleidoscope’. Let things be suspended without will to prove anything, just to take a fleeting impression to touch lihtly and to try to translate the hidden is my preoccupation. The short sequences where the look poses itself on things an apparent casualness askes us attention, humour and often in watermark the gravity: while a fugitiv look, quickly passed over on the dayly of the stranger, my neighbour the strangers cross my pass, like the desire to simply return what escape...”

Annick Blavier

Je me souviens de la chute du mur de Berlin...

Photographs: Annick Blavier
Production: Annick Blavier
Editing: Annick Blavier
Duration 6', 2009

DVD held in the library of the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium.

Fragmented Cities: Chapter I

Production: Annick Blavier
Editing 1st part: Thomas Vandecasteele
Editing 2nd part: Lydie Wisshaupt-Claudel Duration 45', 2008

Short film screened at Objectif Doc festival, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, 2009 (catalogue).

[ 1-page pdf ]

Portrait A.B. par A.B.

Production: Annick Blavier
Editing: Thomas Vandecasteele
Duration 10', 2006

Séduire/Seducere : conduire à l'écart

Production: Annick Blavier
Editing: Bernard Wach
Duration 13'55'', 2005

“Seduction is a performance of unexpected continuity that manages to be produced out of discontinuity. (...)”

Alain Fleischer

Short film screened at the Ce qui a été, ce qui reste exhibition to mark the 15th anniversary ot the “Textimages” magazine, Université Lyon III Jean Moulin, Manufacture des Tabacs, Lyon, 8-26 November 2023.
→  www.univ-lyon3.fr/exposition...

Short film published in the text-image dialogue study magazine “Textimage”, no. 1, En marge, Spring 2007 :
→  www.revue-textimage.com

En décalage

Production: Annick Blavier
Pictures: Annick Blavier
Texts: Corinne Hoex, Caroline Lamarche, Marcel Moreau
Texts read by Magali Pinglaut, Catherine Mestousis
Editing: Thomas Vandecasteele
Duration 25'2'', 2003

Short film screened at Iselp, Brussels, 2008.