Antoine Viviani

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Antoine Viviani is a french filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Paris.

Antoine Viviani
NationalityFrench
OccupationFrench filmmaker
Known for
  • Little Blue Nothing (documentary)
  • In Limbo (documentary)
AwardsDoclab Award

Career[edit]

Antoine Viviani directed in 2011 In Situ[1], a documentary essay about artistic interventions in the urban space in Europe, featuring artists, activists and philosophers.[2] It received the Doclab Award at IDFA in Amsterdam in 2011[3][4] and the Best Film Award at London Open City Documentary Festival in 2012.[5]

In 2015, Antoine Viviani produced and directed In Limbo,[6][7] a documentary essay telling the story of a digital spirit, performed by the French-Canadian writer Nancy Huston, dissolving into the memory of the Internet.[8] The film stages Internet founding fathers and visionaries Gordon Bell, Brewster Kahle, Cathal Gurrin, and Ray Kurzweil[9] among many others, filmed as ghosts, using a special volumetric depth camera.[10][11] An interactive online shortened version, In Limbo Interactive, was released by Arte and the NFB on a specific web-platform, where the viewer could connect its own data.[12] The film premiered in Nov. 2015 as part of the international competition of CPH:Dox in Copenhagen and received several awards.[13]

In 2019, Antoine Viviani created with Pierre Alain Giraud the location-based immersive art installation Solastalgia. Wearing a specific AR equipment, a group of 10 people explores a 400 square meter landscape of a deserted, post apocalyptic future where the last generations have decided to transform into ghosts, thanks to a machine, repeating the same gestures over and over again, haunting the planet forever.[14] Antoine Viviani has said to have been largely inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Morel Invention to write the experience.[15] Icelandic visual artist Gabriela Fridriksduttir, composer Valgeir Sigurdson and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir collaborated on the piece.[16] Solastalgia got selected in the 2020 New Frontier selection of the Sundance Film Festival[17][18] and was exhibited at Champs Libres museum in Rennes, France,[19] and at The National Gallery of Iceland in June 2020.[20]

Works[edit]

Documentary[edit]

Year Title Role Ref.
2009 Little Blue Nothing Producer and co-director with Vincent Moon [21]
2011 In Situ Director and producer [22]
2015 In Limbo Director and producer [23]

Awards and distinctions[edit]

  • 2012: Doclab Award, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam for In Situ
  • 2012: Time Out Best City Film, London Open City Documentary Festival, for In Situ
  • 2016: Best Emergent Filmmaker Award, London Open City Docs Festival, for In Limbo
  • 2016: Prix de la création, Festival Traces de vie, for In Limbo

Installation[edit]

  • 2019: Solastalgia, co-directed with Pierre-Alain Giraud

References[edit]

  1. ^ ""In situ, les artistes dans la ville"". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  2. ^ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam, Insitu | IDFA, retrieved 2020-12-08
  3. ^ Túñez-López, Miguel; Martínez-Fernández, Valentín-Alejandro; López-García, Xosé; Rúas-Araújo, Xosé; Campos-Freire, Francisco (2018-07-10). Communication: Innovation & Quality. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-91860-0.
  4. ^ Zimmermann, Laura-Johanne (July 2015). Citizen Journalism Footage im Dokumentarfilm. Demokratiefördernde Potenziale dokumentarfilmischer Hybride (in German). Diplomica Verlag. ISBN 978-3-95934-712-9.
  5. ^ "Insitu". MIT - Docubase. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  6. ^ "Regardez " In limbo " et plongez dans le monde sensible des données". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  7. ^ "In Limbo: a film by Antoine Viviani".
  8. ^ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam, In Limbo | IDFA, retrieved 2021-02-19
  9. ^ "The Internet, our most mysterious colossus". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  10. ^ "IN LIMBO". MIT - Docubase. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  11. ^ "Les Primeurs du Blog documentaire #8 : "Dans les limbes" - Antoine Viviani". Le Blog documentaire (in French). 2016-11-19. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  12. ^ Pangburn, D. J. (2015-02-13). "Your Personal Data Forms the Basis of This Interactive Doc". Vice. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  13. ^ "film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire". www.film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  14. ^ Silverstone, Sophie (2020-01-28). "New Frontier Central at Sundance 2020 Catalytic Pick #1: Solastalgia". Catalyst Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  15. ^ Silverstone, Sophie (2020-01-28). "New Frontier Central at Sundance 2020 Catalytic Pick #1: Solastalgia". Catalyst Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  16. ^ "Solastalgia". Reykjavik Arts Festival. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  17. ^ "solastalgia". www.sundance.org. Archived from the original on 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  18. ^ Debruge, Janko Roettgers,Peter; Roettgers, Janko; Debruge, Peter (2019-12-12). "Sundance: 2020 New Frontier Program Features Underwater VR, Chomsky A.I." Variety. Retrieved 2021-02-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ "Avec " Solastalgia ", Rennes plonge dans la fin du monde". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2019-11-09. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
  20. ^ "From Iceland — It's Possible To See What The Earth Will Look Like After The End Of Humanity". The Reykjavik Grapevine. 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  21. ^ "Little Blue Nothing". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  22. ^ Viviani, Antoine (2011-07-08), Insitu (Documentary), retrieved 2021-04-17
  23. ^ In Limbo (2015) - Antoine Viviani | User Reviews | AllMovie, retrieved 2021-04-16
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