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Tarmac GPT blues

Thinking of ourselves is thinking of our world. From the sidewalks to our deepest phantasmagorias. If technology influences our life, even our creativity, the way imagination flows is still unpredictable.
This video poem is not an artwork based on generated probabilities of an AI but a patchwork of feelings, images and natural sounds mixed by a creator of contents. A kind of human data teller. It's his narrative goal and your mind which make this puzzle a kind of video poetry. Our senses always find a meaning. The blues does the rest.

Tarmac GPT blues

Small city lights
Vanished glories
I saw myself down the streets
Pretty much younger
But it was a dying shadow
In a flow of garbage bags.

Nowhere is everywhere
And somewhere is really anywhere.

What are we? Humans or pets?
Where I am, full of doubts and sadness?

Smoke rises from the sidewalks,
But rain is falling cold on the lost cars.

Are we still alive or are we already dead?

Hurry up!
Show must go on!
This is the 3th world war blind soundtrack.

  • Yves bobie Bommenel
    Director
    Pattern noster / me, myself & I / Le Chant éteint d’Epsilon
  • Yves bobie Bommenel
    Writer
    Pattern noster / me, myself & I / Le Chant éteint d’Epsilon
  • Yves bobie Bommenel
    Soundtrack
    Electricall / Mike Hey No More
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Tarmac GPT blues
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 3, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Yves bobie Bommenel

I have been working in cultural sector for 30 years. Self-taught, my career has been built through encounters. Currently, I co-manage a cooperative in this field. I have also done radio, organized concerts and festivals, edited magazines, created a design studio and a micropublishing house, etc. From my media experience, I have kept a taste for short forms, whether texts, music or video.
I began my apprenticeship by writing and drawing in my childhood. In 1994, I found myself in the garage punk band Mike Hey No More. Then in 2004 I discovered the dialogue between words, sounds and images on stage within the multimedia trio Ana. Since then, I explore works where the verb surveys different media: stage (Printemps des poètes, BPI Pompidou, Capc Bordeaux, Jimmachine’s tour in Japan, …), devices (Chevaux 2 Vent, Viral…) and exhibitions (Couper-coller, Frgmts collective). I write without claiming to be a writer, I make collages without calling myself a visual artist, I make videos without being a director and music without being a musician. In all this, poetry remains my guiding thread. In recent years, I have mainly devoted myself to video poetry and collages.
By cutting and pasting paper and images, I find a childish feeling of reappropriation of the world. A physical relationship with matter, the jubilation of improvisation and happy or unhappy chance. Slower and more cerebral in its implementation, video poetry is this moment of grace where images transport in music an imaginary in symbiosis with the text by giving them a new poetics. A perpetual quest in a way.
My creations were presented in around thirty international festivals: England, Belgium, USA, Lithuania, Ukraine, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Spain, Morocco, Byelorussia, Germany, Argentina, Japan, Mexico, and also in France…
Otherwise I got the Coup de Coeur Prix du Carnet de Voyage Numérique in the Rendez-vous du Carnet de voyage of Clermont-Ferrand for my filmpoem Yama Sakura. My mini poetic space opera « Le chant éteint d'Epsilon » was also awarded the Best Experimental Film Award at the Blood Stained Indie Film Festival in Japan and my video poem “90 seconds about the 90s” got an award at the Make Art not war festival of Porto.

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2024 Tarmac GPT blues 1 min 16, video poem
2024 Pablo is a bad guy (Electricall) 3 min 21, video clip
2023 Djibouti storm (Electricall) 3 min 29, video clip
2023 Wild asparagus (Electricall) 3 min 23, video clip
2022 90 minutes à propos des années 90 1 min 30, video poem
Award winner at Make art not war festival (Portugal)
2021 Pattern noster 4 min 40, video poem
Crossings Poetic International Film Festival (USA)
Nature & Culture - Poetry Film Festival (Denmark)
REEL poetry / HoustonTX (USA)
Fotogenia (Mexico)
Maldito Festival (Spain)
2019 Le Tigre 2 min 31, video poem
Cadence: Video Poetry Festival (USA)
2019 me, myself & I 5 min 51, video poem
Collaborative video poem from the artistic project “Free Your Navel”
Wipe amateur film festival (Germany)
9th International Video Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
VideoBado International Videopoetry Festival 25 years (Argentina)
2018 Le Chant éteint d’Epsilon 3 min 33, video poem
Best Experimental Film Award Blood Stained Indie Film Festival (Japan)
7th International Video Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
FantaSci Short Film Festival (USA)
KaPow Intergalactic Film Festival (USA)
2017 La Mariposa 67 4 min 56, video poem
7th International Video Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
2016 Une ombre vert mordoré est entrée dans mes yeux 2 min 16, video poem
Wild Whispers Poetry Film Project (England)
Swindon Poetry Festival (England)
2016 Daftar Assafar 3 min 42, video poem
Residence and exhibition “Sur les pas de Delacroix” Institut Français de Meknes (Morocco)
2016 Meknes Haïkus 1 min, video poem
Residence and exhibition “Sur les pas de Delacroix” Institut Français de Meknes (Morocco)
7th International Video Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
2016 Fanfares’ cut-up 3 min 56, video poem
2016 About love 1 min, video poem
Velcom Smart Film festival (Byelorussia)
Cyclop International Videopoetry Festival Kiev (Ukraine)
2015 Fragile 3 min 13, video poem
Finaliste Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival Worcester (USA)
International Film Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
2014 Sakura Yama 1 min 52, video poem
Coup de Coeur Prix du Carnet de Voyage Numérique Rendez-vous du Carnet de voyage Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Finaliste Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival Worcester (USA)
Cyclop International Videopoetry Festival Kiev (Ukraine)
International Film Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
Toff (USA)
Ciné Poème Bezons (France)
Gnarled Oak online literary journal (USA)
Mina 2015 (Australia, New Zeland, France)
Mobgraphia (Brazil)
International Mobile Film Festival (USA)
2013 Vivre (to live) 2 min 53, video poem
Filmpoem Festival Anvers 2014 (Belgium)
International Film Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
2013 Circulaire 1 min, video poem
Instants Vidéo Marseille (France)
Tarp Festival Vilnius (Lituanie)
2013 In Nomine Pixel, 2 min 42, video poem
2013 Septentrion, 2 min 58
Liberated Worlds at Bristol Poetry Festival (UK)
International Film Poetry Festival Athens (Greece)
2013 Tensui 0 min 51, video poem
2012 Ma Déchirure 2 min 59, video poem
Moving poems (UK)
2012 Raspoutine 2 min 55, video poem
2012 Dommages collatéraux 2 min 37, video poem
2012 1932 2 min 59, video poem
Vidéoformes Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Viewster (USA)
2012 L'Escalator 3 min 07, video poem
676 000 views on Youtube
2012 Rétrospectives 2 min 37, video poem
Colloque Poe/Trans/Fi Université Paul Valéry Montpellier (France)
2012 Porn count 2 min 27, video poem
Ch :Art TV event Pallant House Gallery (UK)
2012 Pixelite 2 min 05, video poem
2012 Script 2 min 16, video poem
2012 Fugitifs 2 min 53, video poem
Sinestesia Barcelona (Spain)
2012 Calaveras 2 min 55, video poem
2012 Cadences 3 min 30, video poem
2012 Coquelicœur 1 min 31, video poem
2011 RVB 1 min 46, video poem
2000 Lost predator, Mike Hey No More, 2 min 50, video clip
MOVIES MADE BY OTHERS WITH MY TEXTS
2010 Géométrie voyageuse 9 min 22 ZAT “point de vue/point de vie” par David Olivari (mairie de Montpellier)
2010 Fragments 19 min 24 Carnet de voyage audiovisuel de Sylvain Duigou (Japon)
2008 Hécatombe Live cinéma Ana avec Sylvain Duigou et Laurent Rodriguez
2007 La Petite mort - A Festival Mix'o-Matos avec Sylvain Duigou et Chicken Sushi
2007 La Petite mort - B Festival Mix'o-Matos avec Laurent Rodriguez et Hallo