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Virginie Marchand
Virginie Marchand lives between Mexico, India, Japan and Brooklyn.
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Her work is based on a spiritual quest and even mystical about the different populations. In recent years the artist has focused her study of people who in search of their spirituality or their skills have completely abandoned the comforts materials.
Traveling between Japan, India, Mexico, the artist has got to shoot several documentaries.
Education
Bachelor in Philosophy France.
School for Painting and tromp l'oeil, France.
Diploma with 'special mention for sensitivity' School of Beaux Arts.
PROFESSIONAL ARCHIEVEMENT
Funny Brain: a book of poetry includes 33 novels, 'Funny Brain'
Five shorts and medium movies under the title FAITH premiered in New York at the Anthology Archives:
MENSTRUATION OF THE CRAYFISH screened too during a festival organized by Le Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
MARILYN AND HER MARILYNETES
LITTLE MERMAID
TARGET DREAM
FOODFUCK
BICYCLE, shot and screened at the Bicycle Film Festival and at Maya Stendal Gallery in NY.
Trilogy about Kazuo Ohno
LOVE ON THE BEAT screened during 3 tribute Butoh shows to Kazuo Ohno in Buenos Aires, Tokyo & NY, and recently at the Anthology Archives in NY.
BUTOH DANCER AND NAGA SADHU screened during the tribute Butoh show to Kazuo Ohno in NY and recently in Mazunte Mexico and at the Anthology Archives in NY.
TELEGRAM FOR THE BEAR screened recently at the Anthology Archives in NY
ECUADOR DECEMBER
BROOKLYN SALVADOR
INDIA'S BABIES
ARTIST STATEMENT
« The people that I shoot for “Poetic portraits” are often “genuine” people - rappers in the ghettos of Bogota, sadhus in India, young Americans poets or butoh dancer at Yokohama. All have chosen a spiritual quest, dance, music or poetry at the expense of material comfort ».
ABOUT THE MOVIE: OPERA EPILEPTIC BUTOH
«I edited these Brooklyn sequences interposing scenes from my voyages to India and South America. I inserted them into the actual dance as if they were escapes of the soul, something which arrives during the dance at the moment of trance, when all becomes one . This instant of escape arrives often like a moment of ecstasy, lapse of memory or a loss of consciousness: even the editing itself is sometimes a moment of grace when time ceases to exist. There is a simple symbolism in the first part of the film: the body dances in camera in Jonas's Brooklyn appartment, but the escapes happen across the world in all those countries where I have filmed and with all these people that I have encountered.
My epilepsy, during an attack, provokes also these "soul-escapes", precipitating a sort of out-of-bodyness, and my dance is marked by a sense of gratitude simply to be alive».