Xavier Baert Trailers
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Xavier Baert has been making movies since 1999, mostly on silver-halide film. He is also a programmer at the Cinémathèque de la Danse and a member of the artist-run film laboratory Etna. His movies are caracterized by the image of a dreamed body, dancing, and lustful, and by the nakedness. His practice evolves from film to film, and combines different formal treatments in a never-ending quest of the sublime. Being a filmmaker with an eclectic knowledge, he claims the influence of «traditional filmmakers (Wong Kar Wai, Ferrara, De Palma) as much as experimental ones such as Soukaz, Lemaître, Almuro, whose common point would be the radicality of authorship. Xavier Baert and his danser Cyril Accorsi were recently greeted as residents at the Centre National de la Danse in order to extend their artistic collaboration.
Most Popular Xavier Baert Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
06 December 2001
Found footage movie from Wong Kar-wai's In the mood for love trailer.
17 July 2013
Footage of dancer Julien Touati in dramatic lighting.
01 January 2001
If it is films which reveal ‘the choreographic fatality of cinematographic intervention’(Dominique Paini) this one henceforth very much belongs-dance gestures, in slow motion, distorted, halted, impregnate the film procession in a commentary-magnificent-by its own unfolding (back and forth).
08 December 2004
This birth of the human silhouette metonymically takes us back to the origins of cinema, to Marey or Muybridge’s pre-cinema.
01 January 1999
A high angle shot of light, colours and rhythms in the darkness of a rave party. Freedom of Super 8 (main material of most of my films at this time), slow motion intensity (Hong-Kong cinema convinced me about the profoundness), a flash of a male body outline (colour metamorphosis on the outline of the dancer’s naked shoulder), developing dance.
01 March 2002
Xavier Baert works on the visual outline of the body. He creates cinematographic body states which according to the French filmmaker, only cinema can invent.
17 November 2007
Two men making love. The question of the embrace (which encompasses the caress, the look, the kiss, the penetration, the speed of movement, the expression of ecstasy…) give to the film a scenario of examples of editing (disconnection, links, rhythm, interlaced films, alternate editing…).
13 December 2002
Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom from Beijing: one strips himself naked while the others veil and reveal the film.
07 February 2019
Founded in the second half of the 1990s, the experimental film association L'Etna witnessed the transition from film to digital cinema.
01 January 2001
Film restored by Yves-Marie Mahé from several recordings made during past screenings, notably in the basement of the L’Etna laboratory.
