[IKI WO TOMERU/Apnea 2] 15 minutes, HDV, color, stereo, 2007 and installation version
written and directed by Philippe Chatelain & Virginie Lavey
Located in a store of the tokyo trendy streets, the camera follows a seller in her everyday routine until her own reflections in the window display start to behave autonomously.

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exhibition and festival 2007: "French video collection" Yokohama-Japan, FID Marseille-France
Iki wo tomeru, 4mn, dv, color, stereo, 2000
Commisioned by the Gallery Command-n for the Akihabara Tv project, "iki wo tomeru" (apnea) is about intimacy and love relations in the over-mediatized environment of Tokyo. Oki wo tomeru is the superimposition of three elements: the commercial activity (electronic shops), the mass media never ending flow (images on tv monitors), and scenes of intimacy (people kissing each other inside those shops).

video> http://www3.cnet-ta.ne.jp/c/commandn/indexat.html

exhibition: 03.2000 Akihabara TV2 - Galerie Command N, Tokyo
01.2002 >11.2002 "Je t'aime...moi non plus" Europe touring video-exhibition
Do you like my voice? 35 minutes, 16mm/BetaSp, N&B/couleur, stereo, 1997
Co-directed with Sebastien Coupy and Mathieu Doll.

How to film the free music of Michel Doneda (soprano sax), Daunik Lazro (alto sax) and Atau Tanaka (biomuse) ?
The idea of the directors was to create situations where the musicians are in real position of
improvisation toward a suggested spots in Paris. The movie was shot in public spaces - main streets at peak hour, tennis court, elevator, parking - where the 3 performers challenge the surrounding sounds : car, crowd, tennis ball, elevator music. The editing was done with an extreme freedom, generating gaps of image and sound as counterpoint.
“Alively and polymorphic film, whose force is to draw its harmony in the interference”. in Bref, july 1998

exhibition/broadcast 1997: Institut Lumiere (Lyon-fr), Horlieu-(x) (Lyon-f), Festival musique d'aujourd'hui (Annecy-fr), Theatre de l'echangeur (Paris-fr).
1998: Cybertheatre (Bruxelles-Be), Festival Videoformes (Clermont-Ferrand-Fr), l'Artsenal (Issy-les-Moulineaux-Fr), Festival Musique-Action (Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy-Fr), 6th Internationnal Art Film Festival of Bratislava, Festival des instants videos de Manosque-fr
1999: Maison de la danse (Lyon-fr), Ecole des Arts decoratifs de Strasbourg-fr
2000: Yokohama city Gallery (Japan).
2003: French Insitute -Tokyo, Festival Olhares Alternativos (Lisbonne-Portugal).
Acquisition in 1998 by the Forum des images, Paris and the Institute of Image and Sound Villeurbanne-fr.
Corpuscules en mouvement 5 x 4 mn, Super8/16 mm/Betasp,1995-96
(Corpuscles in movement)
Portraits of musicians from the contemporary and innovative scene with: Yoshihide Otomo, Dragon Blue, Attwenger, Phil Minton, Tenko.
"Corpuscules en mouvement" has been published as a 50 copies limited edition through UK label ReRMegarcorp.

broadcast 1996: Glopland (Paris), Musiques en scène (Lyon), Festival vidéo Mediawave 96 (Hungary),12th Kurzfilm festival d' Hamburg, European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck-D).
1999: Knitting Factory (New York)






A propos du calcul exact de la spontanéité des images
(Thoughts on how to determine the spontaneity of images)
video research, 20', color, stereo, Betasp, 1995
Everyday, The Tv news bring its flow of images and sounds. At a very high speed the reported events follow each other, they confuse themselves and create a stereotyped representation of the time and of the world. "A propos du calcul..." is a video research which considers the image itself as an event and not as the medium of an event.


exhibition and festival 1995: L'Elac (Lyon), American Center (Paris), Experimental Video Festival AVE (Holland), Newmusic festival "les 38e rugissants"(Grenoble).
1996: Festival "Videoformes" (Cermont-Ferrand), Confluences (Paris), Rencontre Arts électroniques (Rennes), 11 FFVF (Scotland), Videokunstpreis ZKM-Karlsruhe-Germany.
1997: Fleche d'or (Paris-F), Conference at the UIFM of Bourg-en-Bresse-Fr,Videotheque de Paris.12th Kurzfilm festival (Hamburg-Germany), European Media Art Festival(Osnabruck-Germany).
1998: Kudan (Tokyo)
2005: CCMC (contemporary music fest), Tokyo French Institute
2006: Art Museum Strasbourg, France