Gravel (re)Works

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With images as a medium, an album as a format, and music and dance as disciplines, the new project co-created by artists FrΓ©dΓ©rick Gravel and Jean-Christophe Yacono (yako) draws from the choreographic material of Gravel's previous works. Conceived and created during the pandemic, GRAVEL (re)WORKS is a response, a reaction to this context that favors digital creation. How can we go beyond the first reflex of capturing a show and broadcasting it live in digital form? How can we rethink the relationship with the living spectacle through images? How to privilege and share the energy of the performative dimension in video? In this sense, GRAVEL (re)WORKS nourishes and shifts their fields of expertise, opens up the potentialities of their approaches and pushes their collaboration, resulting in a work that engages an intimate relationship between the camera and the dancing body. The objective point of view of the camera creates a direct link with the audience, transporting them to the heart of the choreographic experience. The live music and the sound ambiance giving us access to the voice, the breath, the movement or the friction of the dancers' feet amplify the performative dimension of a living work. We are here and now.

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  • FrΓ©dΓ©rick Gravel
    Director
  • Jean-Christophe Yacono
    Director
    Fear In Motion
  • Jean-Christophe Yacono
    Writer
  • FrΓ©dΓ©rick Gravel
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Gravel (re)Works
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Runtime:
    40 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 26, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    73,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Shooting Format:
    Various digital camera
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Festival International des Films sur l'Art
    MontrΓ©al
    Canada
    March 26, 2023
    world premiere
    Selection and closing film
Director Biography - FrΓ©dΓ©rick Gravel, Jean-Christophe Yacono

Born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1965, Jean-Christophe Yacono (yako) is a Franco-Canadian multimedia visual artist. Photographer, videographer, director of photography, editor, author of interactive and digital works for small and very large screens and public spaces, his practice involves the creation of photographic or animated images. He questions the place, the fleeting and present moment, the reality and the trace that the movement, gesture or displacement, prints on the sensor.

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Director Statement

Jean-Christophe Yacono, also known as yako, a multimedia visual artist, does not consider himself as a technician of cinema or photography, even if the question of the image is at the heart of his practice. The creative movement of yako is a "going towards" the work of the other. His interest lies in the place of the encounter with the work of an artist, in the way he will be able to interpret it with another medium, and this, in the perspective of increasing it, enriching it, even moving it, perhaps making it more complex or even destabilizing it. This "going towards" becomes a work, and one could just as well speak of an added value, a complementary work or even a video and/or photographic hermeneutic. Yako has always used gesture, notably dance, as an element of interaction in her images, but also as a way of working with the image. After several years in the so-called entertainment industry, where everything was "so prepared", and in research into new interactive media where the encounter with the public depended on its more or less easy access to complex technology, he wished to simplify his practice, that is to say, to reduce the means, in a relationship of de-growth, whether in his work or in his personal life, which he calls "activism at my level".

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