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THE SERPENT 2026 - color - 2K - stereo sound - 5 min 38 Shooting format : Super8 A film by Frédéric D. Oberland Music by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland Cinematography, editing & color grading by Frédéric D. Oberland Film processing & scan by Grégory Dargent Animated credits by Charles-André Coderre Font by Farah Fayyad "This short essay is based on the aesthetics of fragmentation and crumbling reminiscence, where the memory appears in a faded image. We see this through the use of a super8 mm film, where scratches, light combustion, and psychedelic grain create a visual medium as a missing personal archive. The imagery documents a journey steeped in politics and diaspora, where footage of Gaza protests in Paris intersects with scenes from an improv festival in Beirut and shots from Montreal, transforming these cities into a single, mutated space. While music builds tension, the image remains in a state of color labyrinth between cold blue and warm combustion as a cursed dark night." // LP & CD AVAILABLE: 'ETERNAL LIFE NO END' CONSTELLATION RECORDS 2026 Screenings : . Apr 2026 | Premiered by Ma3azef |
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MAO MAO 2005 - color - 4:3 - stereo sound - 2 min Shooting format : mini-DV & found-footage 35mm A film by Frédéric D. Oberland Music by Brahman / Arshgeil (Pentothal®, Vomir, Stromvarx & Frédéric D. Oberland) A cry of solitary anger emerges from the maelstrom. Detournement and flicker are used here to transcend the futile nostalgia of political symbols tainted by the society of the spectacle and its inevitable issue: boredom. Let the dead burry the dead and pity them ; for it is our destiny to be the first to enter into the new world. "The rage expressed in Frédéric D. Oberland's film, Mao Mao (2005) seems more direct and radical in regard to the cinematographic treatment of duration, light, color, and sound. The artist use archival political symbols that have become fairly banal and even monotonous these days. From here, it is the artist himself who rebels. With the same object, the political symbols, he goes beyond an ordinary perspective and stimulate another punk-live vision. In his film, the images are independent and separate from their representation through alienation and fluttering. We feel this tension. The soundtrack enhances his idea of going beyond the mundane. When we no longer hear the soundtrack, we fell it, and the film somehow makes present the release of anger." Jihye Kim // DVD AVAILABLE: 'HUMAN FRAMES -ANGER' & 'HUMAN FRAMES - BOXSET' LOWAVE 2012 Screenings : . Nov 2013 | Human Frames, Nuit Blanche, Paris (FR) . Aug 2013 | Human Frames, Festival ISI, Montpellier (FR) . June 2012 | Human Frames, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin (GER) . May 2012 | Human Frames, Cineteca, Madrid (SP) . June 2011 | Human Frames, Kit-Kunst-Im-Tunnel, Düsseldorf (GER) . May 2011 | Festival Nomades 2011, L'Etna, Paris (FR) . Feb 2011 | Human Frames, The Substation, Singapore (SING) . July 2010 | Songs d'Une Nuit d'Eté, Cinémathèque Française, Paris (FR) . Aug 2006 | Festival On Air, CultureTV Video Podcasting . July 2006 | Copyright pour Tous, Cinémathèque Française, Paris (FR) . Apr 2006 | Nouveau Casino, Paris (FR) |
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LE CORPS DES VENTS 2005 - N&B - 4:3 - stereo sound - 20 min Shooting format : 16mm A film by Frédéric D. Oberland & Mickaël Rabetrano Poetry and cinematography by Mickaël Rabetrano Music by Frédéric D. Oberland w/ Yana Klein, Malik Zidi, Mélanie Malhère Film d’avant l’image : “il y a une voix sans bouche, sans visage, sans même un souffle. Celle qui te guide sur les vagues violentes d’une mer de flots opaques”. Expérience sensitive et acousmatique, invocation sonore et visuelle, “Le Corps des Vents” est une oeuvre hétérophonique et radicale. On y traverse la nuit. On y croise neige, métal, souffles, voix, fantômes, brouillard, bruit, enfance. On y entend parfois des cris. On y parle le langage des oiseaux. Mettez-vous à l’aise. Assurez-vous d’un bon confort d’écoute. Vous n’êtes pas obligés de fermer les yeux. // DVD AVAILABLE : 'BLACKLIGHT - LABEL OMBRES' LOWAVE 2007 Screenings : . June 2011 | Blacklight, Pera Museum, Istanbul (TUR) . July 2010 | Songs d'Une Nuit d'Eté, Cinémathèque Française, Paris (FR) . June 2006 | Festival des 10 ans de L’Etna, Paris, (FR) . Mar 2006 | Dom Kulture Studentski Grad, Belgrade (SERB) . Mar 2006 | Printemps des Poètes, Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen (FR) . Nov 2005 | Festival O.F.N.I #3, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (FR) . May 2005 | Festival 5 jours tout court, Caen (FR) |
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THE GAME IS OVER
2003 - color - 4:3 - stereo sound - 9min Shooting format : Super 8 Film and soundtrack by Frédéric D. Oberland “The Game is Over” : quatre mots prononcés par Georges Walker Bush, président des Etats Unis, par un matin ensoleillé de février 2003. L’écran de télévision d’une amie, la sainte guerre économique, les manifestations spontanées, la gâchette d’une caméra. Des hélicoptères. Gilles Deleuze. Et l’espoir d’un ultime sourire. // Screenings: . Feb 2012 | Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris (FR) . Mar 2006 | Dom Kulture Studentski Grad, Belgrade (SERB) . June 2004 | “Metsbou no Susume", Uplink Gallery, Tokyo (JAP) . May 2004 | Festival O Crépuscule, Nîmes (FR) . May 2004 | Film Encouter, Russian Culturel Center, Le Caire (EGYPT) . Feb 2004 | Video Art Center Festival, Tokyo (JAP) . Jan 2004 | Festival Les Inattendus, Lyon (FR) . Dec 2003 | Rencontres Art du Mouvement, Angers (FR) |
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