Duration: 12 min
Year: 2005
Format: DV
Image Format: 4/3
Directed by: Virgile Novarina
Mixing: Philippe Jacquet
a film
Around Sleep is built like a wildlife documentary focused on sleepers. It tells the story of a day, from morning to night. The only characters are sleepers and yawners who were filmed in public transports or places as well as in private surroundings.
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Scène Nationale 61, march 29th, Exhibition Recto Verso
Chapelle de la Commanderie, march 9-25th, Poésimages & sons #01
Tertulia Museum, April 25th
Ecole Charles Perrault, Printemps des poètes, march 16th, 9:30
Médiathèque Départementale de l’Orne, february 1st, 5 pm
La Tannerie 89, 12 rue Saint-Martin, Mai 2nd
Le Petit Faucheux, 12 rue Léonard de Vinci, mai 18th
La Samoisienne, 7 bis avenue de la Libération, march 30th
L’Inlassable galerie, 18 rue Dauphine, january 17th - february 5th
IMEC, novembre 14th
Stadtbibliothek (Allemagne), september 5th
Atelier de Création «Les Endormis», march 13th
La Matrice, 11 rue des Martyrs, november 11th
Théâtre d’Auxerre, june 6th
SCAM, march 21st
Galerie Porta 34, mai 9th
Espace Jemmapes, january 12th
Cinéma Atlantis, mai 29th
Institut Français de Brême (Allemagne), mai 25th
La Halle Saint-Pierre, october 1st
Halle Saint-Pierre, Institut Français in Bremen, Cinema Atlantis, Espace Jemmapes, Galerie Porta 34,
SCAM, Matrice , Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, IMEC, Inlassable galerie.
Jean Olivier Hucleux, from the Work to the Artwork
With: Sarane Alexandrian, Ludovic Boulard le Fur, Thomas Duval, Juliette Ferrer, Roséliane Goldstein, Lou Brice Léonard, LBW, David, Raphaël, Romain, and Virgile Novarina, Julien Pace, Marie-Sol Parant, Octave and Léonard Novarina-Parant, Jonathan Rubin, Didier Seban, Mr. Windels.
Piano: «Sounds of the Heart», The Flight, by Marie-Sol Parant.
Marie-Sol Parant has never learnt to play the piano; she does not know music theory or even the names of the notes on the keyboard and prefers to play on out of tune pianos. Alone, she has reinvented her relationship to the instrument, with her own markers on the keyboard and on her scores that have neither notes nor staves but, instead, are coded and coloured patterns of the spaces in which her music takes us.
Projection of «Around Sleep» in the spyhole of the Inlassable Gallery, Paris, Rue Dauphine, in January 2013
Alençon
Elancourt
Cali, Colombia
Vimoutiers
Alençon
Avallon
Tours
Samois-sur-Seine
Paris
Caen
Stuttgart
France Culture
Paris
Auxerre
Paris
St Barthélémy
Paris
Brême
Brême
Paris
The film is divided into four parts: The Morning, The Train, The Yawn and The Evening. It contains seven quasi-subliminal images (1/12 to 1/24 of a second), which are generally perceived by the audience.
Extract: The Train
Extract: The Yawn
La Provence, september 20th 2009
Radio: «Les Endormis»
After studying Mathematics and Physics, Virgile Novarina (born in 1976) devoted himself to the artistic exploration of his own sleep through writings and drawings, and the sleep of others through photographs and videos. He has published six books of "Ecrits et dessins de nuit" (Night’s Writings and Drawings) and has exhibited his work in France, Germany, Portugal and the United States. Since 2006 the very act of sleeping has become an integral part of his work, through the “En Somme” (French language pun, meaning "all in all" or "sleep in progress") series of performances, during which he sleeps publicly in shop windows, galleries or museums.
In 2002 Virgile Novarina befriended Jean-Olivier Hucleux, whom he regularly filmed from 2005 to 2009. "Jean Olivier Hucleux, du travail à l'oeuvre" (from the work to the artwork) is his first documentary.
English translation : Valérie Vivancos
With
Michel Butor . . . . . . . . . . . Francion’s dream
Clément Rosset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hasofin
Pierre Pachet . . . . . . . . . Towards deep sleep
Jean-Luc Nancy . . . . . . . . . The sleeping self
Deep into Sleep (39', 2016). « A litterary and philosophic exploration of the various states of sleep ».
Embark upon a dreamlike path to the heart of sleep through the reading of four texts by Michel Butor (Matière de rêve), Clément Rosset (Route de nuit), Pierre Pachet (Nuits étroitement surveillés) and Jean-Luc Nancy (Tombe de sommeil), and a series of twelve sleepers.
Tangible Striptease (en nanoséquences), une performance d’ORLAN et Mael le Mée
Un film de Virgile Novarina, 29’, 2017
La notion philosophique de « soi », apparue pour la première fois il y a plus de quatre cents ans dans l’Essai sur l’entendement humain de John Locke, a été quelque peu bousculée ces dernières années par une série de découvertes scientifiques sur le rôle des bactéries à l’intérieur du corps humain, et sur le fonctionnement de notre système immunitaire. Aux mille milliards de cellules composant le corps humain, il faut en effet ajouter dix à cent fois plus de cellules bactériennes vivant sur ses muqueuses, assurant certaines fonctions essentielles pour l’individu. Dès lors, que pourrait-être un autoportrait artistique qui tiendrait compte de cet ensemble de cellules bactériennes, appelé microbiote ? C’est dans cette aventure que nous ont entrainés ORLAN et Mael le Mée, lors de la performance participative "TANGIBLE STRIPTEASE (en nanoséquences)", qui a eu lieu le 2 juin 2016 au festival Bains Numériques d’Enghien-les-Bains et le 16 septembre au Festival Vivant, à Paris.
Prises de vues en microscopie électronique : Jean-Marc Chomaz, Pierre-Eugène Coulon, Pierre-Damien Coureux, Eric Larquet et Giancarlo Rizza. Prises de vues en microscopie optique : Justin Artigues. Montage vidéo et images complémentaires : Denis Louis. Chargées de production Dorsa Barlow : Sophia Djitli et Charlotte Pavie. Une co-production : Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Dorsa Barlow, Mise à Jour Productions. Avec le soutien du DICRéAM (CNC), du Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine et de la ville de Bordeaux. Partenaires : Ecole Polytechnique-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Microscopie de l’Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique, Sup'Biotech. Remerciements : Emmanuel Cuisinier, Jens Hauser, Estelle Mogensen, Yvan Nicolas (CHU de Bordeaux), Aniara Rodado, Dominique Roland, Géraldine Seuleusian, Fabrice Van Nhut (laboratoire d’analyses médicales Unicell d’Enghien-les-Bains).
Inner Telescope, a Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac
A Film by Virgile Novarina, 35’, 2017
Created by the artist Eduardo Kac to exist in weightlessness and to be made on board the International Space Station by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the work Inner Telescope lays the foundation for a new form of art and poetry, freed from the constraints of gravity. The film "Inner telescope, a space artwork by Eduardo Kac", takes us on an artistic and scientific journey from the conception of the work in Eduardo Kac's studio in Chicago to its realization in orbit by Thomas Pesquet, 400 km away from Earth, during the Proxima mission of the European Space Agency.
With Eduardo Kac, Thomas Pesquet, Gérard Azoulay, Hugues Marchal and Thierry Duquesne. Directed by Virgile Novarina.
A production of the Observatoire de l'Espace, the art-science lab of the French Space Agency (CNES), with the assistance of ESA and the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.
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