Movies: Dominique Willoughby

16 mm film painted and refilmed on a virtual image bench for the ballet Shazam by the DCA Philippe Decouflé company. It was projected onto a dancer whose costume gradually inflated....

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A sequence of non-abstract visual impressions on a theme open to all interpretations....

Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique Willoughby, among others, were active participants, with 5 issues published between 1976 and 1979....

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Coloured micro-drops sprayed onto transparent film stock, small dots spread at random in a space indifferent to the filmstrip's division into frames. This produces an abundance of effects: swarming, flurries, Brownian movements, ephemeral and vibrati...

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Bal is a pensive self-portrait by Dominique Willoughby and his most dazzling film. His face in extreme close-up is slightly anamorphosised. This is a tête-a-tête between Dominique Willoughby's face and his camera lens whose position the viewer assume...

Experimental stroboscopic effects...

Gruesome grimaces, craftsmen at work, running animals, wild fountains of colours – the “not yet films” from the prehistory of cinema were only sixteen animation images long, but they left people amazed and satisfied the sensation-seekers. Parisian ar...

The wind in branches and leaves, in the clouds, revealing or masking the sun, affecting a gong, but also the montage, animating a garden. There is also a spiral at one moment, oh yes and also the moon. A play with sampling gusts of wind and gong, sun...

A stone riddled man moves towards a statue woman, between stone and flesh, earth and sky. Ancient cities, countryside roads unthread and mingle with memories and imagination....

Plongeon ou le Grand Disque is the first film to be made using the 2-metre diameter Large Stroboscopic Disk (LSD), designed by Dominique Willoughby and produced by Achay Doan, which provides a new form of stroboscopic animated painting, a contemporar...

Cinematic and experimental visions of Paris....

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Part of the Paris Mental larger work in progress : experimental cinematographic visions of the city of Paris. Here two sides of the Paris underground : aerial and subterranean, flying from Jaurès to Barbès-Rochechouart, and walking in the labyrinths ...