For the films in which Lebrat divided the screen he placed a piece of paper with one or more slits in it in front of the lens, allowing only a narrow strip of imagery to register. He then exposed the film multiple times, layering images. The initial effect is confusion—it’s often hard to identify from these moving slits what we’re seeing. But soon the eyes acclimate, and when one does recognize fragments of a nude woman (Lebrat’s wife) in a landscape in Film Number Two (1976), she has the quality of an apparition. Shown in a different way than thousands of years of nudes have led us to expect, this woman is charged with a vital, surprising erotic energy. (Fred Camper)
Christian Lebrat
Director
Chapeaux à transformation58%
The Souvenir: Part II65%
Caicedo (with Pole)60%
Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin62%
A Woman60%
Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs60%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
The Souvenir61%
Nude93%
Le Livre d'image63%
La Souriante Madame Beudet59%
Witch's Cradle67%
L'Auberge ensorcelée63%
Dough and Dynamite61%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds74%
The Paradine Case63%
Alice in Wonderland60%
...And Justice for All70%
Babylon73%
Un chien andalou74%
