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French filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist

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

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

In 2015, Viviani produced and directed In Limbo, 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. The film stages Internet founding fathers and visionaries Gordon Bell, Brewster Kahle, Cathal Gurrin, and Ray Kurzweil among many others, filmed as ghosts, using a special volumetric depth camera. 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. The film premiered in Nov. 2015 as part of the international competition of CPH:Dox in Copenhagen and received several awards.

In 2019, 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. Viviani has said to have been largely inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Morel Invention to write the experience. Icelandic visual artist Gabriela Fridriksduttir, composer Valgeir Sigurdson and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir collaborated on the piece. Solastalgia got selected in the 2020 New Frontier selection of the Sundance Film Festival and was exhibited at Champs Libres museum in Rennes, France, and at The National Gallery of Iceland in June 2020.

Works

Documentary

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

Awards and distinctions

  • 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

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

References

  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.
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  6. "Regardez " In limbo " et plongez dans le monde sensible des données". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-19.
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  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.
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  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.
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  23. In Limbo (2015) - Antoine Viviani | User Reviews | AllMovie, retrieved 2021-04-16
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