Stochastics

Stochastics
HD video or 35mm 6 minutes.
Conception and Direction, David Kidman.
David Kidman
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Stochastics
Short film, HD video and 35mm, 6 minutes.
Conception and Direction, David Kidman.
When you are a child, you learn how to walk. You don’t necessarily analyse your movements at the time, even though it is a painful learning curve. For a lot of boys, as well as a
small majority of girls in this world, there will be a second period of apprenticeship as a professional walker; military service, when you must forget to walk and learn to march. This film is
partly about the way in which I learn to walk, the way in which cinema learned to walk and partly
how to aim at the right targets.
In the great capitals of the world, there is almost always a place destined for military
display, either in the form of a parade or in a monument used as a pretext for reifying former
glories. These places are, for the rest of the year, invested by tourists, who wander from one end
to the other, taking photographs, looking up and looking around, talking and generally hanging
around. Even so, at least once a year, these mis-programmed wanderings are put aside in favour
of a proof of current or historical military might through organised marching.
So Stochastics investigates the possibility of making a primitive film, using a flea market Rolleiflex from the fifties, shooting on 120mm black and white film on which each roll takes
twelve pictures. Each of the sequences of the film, as well as all the still images, uses only the
twelve views from the same film (sometimes only eleven and a half, sometimes even ten, when
the loading or unloading of the film went wrong. This primitive equipment is much the same as
that available before the first movie cameras and could have easily been made for a Zoetrope or
Praxinoscope.
On the other hand, I used a combination of Final Cut and After Effects to edit the scanned films on HD video, software that is generally intended for the entertainment industries today.
One of the major problems was to position the photograph in the right place, and sometimes
displace, enlarge or reduce it to make the sequence work. The target based technology which this
involves may be widely used today, but finds its roots in military targeting technology.
In a way, the film will always remain unfinished, as there are other places in which the
walk shots will be taken, which will be added to the film in progress. The last place determines
the soundtrack; the soundtrack uses the form of a musical fugue, as does the editing. For each
version of the film, the sound track will depend on the last place visited, but not yet added to
the film, in this version, shown as work in progress during a lecture and screening tour of Japan,
the soundtrack consists of my friend Yo Ota telling me how to say “I don’t speak Japanese.” in
Japanese; phonetically “Watashua nohongua hana semase”, the words are slowed down and speeded up to make up the notes and sequences in a fugue full of mistakes. The last sequence plays
on the word fugue’s meaning in French, which is to escape or run away.
David Kidman
David Kidman
Biography
Grants and prizes :
Film maker born in 1961, Leigh, Angleterre.
Cinema Studies, Newcastle Polytechnic, England,
B.A. First Class, Media Production.
2010
Festival Alternative, Belgrade, Serbia, Stochastics,
Important Cinematic Work
Dissertation, Newcastle Polytechnic, Angleterre:
Towards a radical praxis in Hollywood cinema. 1989.
2004,
Professor of cinema and video at l’École supérieure
des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France, since 1995 (professeur d’enseignement artistique de classe normale).
2003,
Creation of the video and cinema teaching programme in Tours.
Coordination of final diploma juries in 2000, 2003
and 2009.
Lecturer at l’Université François Rabelais from
1990 to 2000.
Centre national de la Cinématographie, France
Image/Mouvement, Ministère de la Culture et de la
Communication, France
2002,
Prix Jacques Attila.
2002,
Aide à l’écriture, A.P.C.V.L. Région Centre, France.
1990,
Arts Council of Great Britain.
[email protected]
http://www.davidkidman.com
Filmography :
Les Petites Expertises, 2000-2002, DV, 16mm. Artist.
Co-production and distribution Work in Progress.
Studio Work, 2010, HD, Finalising.
Stochastics, 2010, HD, 35mm, Conception, direction,
editing. Production Inprogress
D’après le maîtres, 2007, 13’ HD video, creative documentary. Conception, direction, editing. Production Inprogress / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest.
Une Promenade de Claude Rutault, 2005, 16’ HD
video, , creative documentary. Conception, direction, editing. Production Inprogress / MAC /VAL
Musée d’art Contemporain de Vitry..
Hot Society, 2005-06, 16mm/DVCam, , creative
documentary. Conception, direction, editing.
Production Inprogress , 92’, internet site (www.
criticalsecret/hotsociety_inprogress/) and installation. Conception, direction, editing. Production
Inprogress, APCVL, Ministère de la Culture et de
la Communication, TV10 Angers.
Home Turf, 2002 (version française), 16mm. , Experimental Conception, direction, editing. Production
Inprogress. Co-production Newcastle Polytechnic/
Newcastle Film Makers’ Cooperative. Distribution
Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris.
Foam Film, 2002, 16mm. Court-métrage, Réalisateur. Production. Co-production Work in Progress.
Distribution Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris.
Le Sixième Monde, 2001-2003, DV. , creative documentary. Conception, direction, editing. Producer.
Co-production and distribution Work in Progress.
Betty Bui, 1998, DV. creative documentary.
Conception, direction, editing, Producer. Co-production and distribution Work in Progress.
Alexander Hahn, DV. 1997-2002, creative documentary. Conception, direction, editing, producer.
Co-production and distribution Work in Progress.
Xavier Veilhan, 1995, Béta. , creative documentary.
Conception, direction, editing. Producer, Distribution : France - CNC Images de la Culture, Worldwide - Ministère des Affaires étrangères Filmer les
Arts.
Angela Bulloch, 1993, Béta. , creative documentary.
Conception, direction, editing. Producer. Co-production CCC Tours/Ministère de la Culture.
A Place in the Clouds, 1991, Feature film, Writer.
Production Bill Gavin.
Shopping, 1990, Feature film, Writer. Production
Northern Media Arts Investment Fund/Northern
Arts/Arts Council of Great Britain.
David Kidman
Programmations and participations in exhibitions :
2010
In Situ, Orléans, France, December, Stochastics,
Dumbphone (EXHIBITION)
H2O Gallery, Curated by Macu Moràn for BAC!
Barcelona, Spain, Stochastics (EXHIBITION)
British Art Sideshow, Nottingham, Stochastics,
Training from Expertises.(EXHIBITION)
Festival Alternative, Belgrade, Serbia, Stochastics
Fesiival Cinémas Différents, Paris, Stochastics
2007
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France, Hot Society in Mythologie de l’Ouest dans l’art américain.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, France, Une Promenade de Claude Rutault. D’après le maîtres.
MAMCO de Genève, Switzerland, in (p)réparations), Une Promenade de Claude Rutault.
Escales Documentaires, La Rochelle, France, Hot
Society.
2006
Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France, Hot Society.
Fesiival Tous Courts, Aix en Provence, Stochastics
Festival Extensions, Tours, France, Hot Society.
KLEX, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Stochastics
International Film Festival of Banja Luka, Bosnia
Herzegovina. Stochastics
2005
Yonsei University, Seoul, Stochastics
Festival de Cine Internacional de Ourense in Galicia, Spain, Stochastics
Film Forum Arsenals in Riga, Latvia, Stochastics
Ex-is, Seoul, Korea, Stochastics
Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan, Attention, Hot
Society
Asagaya Art School, Tokyo, Japan, Attention, Hot
Society, Foam Film
Nippon engineering College, Tokyo, Japan, Attention, Hot Society
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Attention, Hot
Society, Foam Film
2008
Broadway, Nottingham, Angleterre, Hot Society.
Transat Vidéo Tournée Ondulations, France, Hot
Society.
MAC /VAL Musée d’art Contemporain de Vitry,
France, Une Promenade de Claude Rutault.
Monoquini, Mois du Documentaire, Montpellier,
France, Hot Society.
FIDMarseille, France, Hot Society.
Cinéma La Clef, Paris, France, Hot Society.
Da Shan Zi International Art Festival, Pékin,
Chine, Les Petites Expertises.
2004
Centre d’Art Mira Phalaina Montreuil sous Bois,
France, Home Turf.
Centre d’Art Mira Phalaina Montreuil sous Bois,
France, Foam Film.
Robert Beck Memorial, New York City, United
States, Foam Film.
CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, Cinéma excentric, Les
Petites Expertises.
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Programmations and participations in exhibitions :
2003
Instants Vidéo de Manosque, France, Les Petites
Expertises.
http://www.davidkidman.com
Curated exhibitions :
DNSEP 2009, exhibition of students having passed
their DNSEP, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de
Tours, October – November 2009, catalogue.
Paris Cinémas Différents, France, Foam Film.
Paris Cinéma, France, Foam Film, Les Petites Expertises.
Peter Downsbrough, Takahiko Iimura, Michael Snow,
Festival Extensions, Tours, October 2007.
Signes de nuit, Paris, France, Foam Film.
Un Artiste dans la Ville, Marseille, France, Les
Petites Expertises.
Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Les Petites
Expertises.
Au retour, exhibition of students having passed
their DNSEP,, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de
Tours, October - November 2002.
Traverses Vidéo, Toulouse, France, Les Petites Expertises.
Une proposition de Betty Bui, École Supérieure des
Beaux-Arts de Tours, January - February 1998.
2002
Alexander Hahn, On the nature of Things, installation
video, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Tours,
April – May 1997.
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, Les
Petites Expertises, Home Turf.
Batofar, Paris, France, Les Petites Expertises.
Paris Cinémas Différents, France, Home Turf.
Xavier Veilhan is shown in France by the CNC/
Images de la Culture, and the Ministère des Affaires
étrangères in the Filmer les Arts programme around
the World
David Kidman
DVD Preview
[email protected]
http://www.davidkidman.com
Conférences :
December 2010
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
March 2007
École des beaux-arts de Rueil-Malmaison
On Phil Hoffman’s All Fall Down, with screening
and intervention by Phil Hoffman.
Sociétés chaudes, followed by a projection of Hot
Society.
May 2010
April 2006
Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan, Experimental filmmaking in France today.
Asagaya Art School, Tokyo, Japan, Experimental
film-making in France today.
École nationale des beaux-arts de Paris
New China Action – les vidéos des artistes chinois
contemporains.
Nippon engineering College, Tokyo, Japan, Experimental film-making in France today.
With films and videos by Liu Jin , Liu Wei, Wu
Ershan , Wang Gongxin, Ma Yongfeng, Huang Yan,
Cai Qing
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Experimental
film-making in France today.
December 2005
November 2008
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Conférence on Gregory Markopoulos, with a screening of The Illiac Passion.
November 2008
Nottingham Trent University, England,
Artisanal cinema, with workshop
November 2007
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Conférence et film-performance sur Robert Smithson, with films by Robert Smithson and Nancy
Holt.
Cinéma Nova Bruxelles
L’enseignement du cinéma argentique dans les écoles des
beaux-arts, rencontres internationales des laboratoires indépendants.
May 2002
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China,
Minor expertise
David Kidman
Curated programmes :
All of these programmes were presented, either by
muself or by an invited artist or critic. Some, such
as the « L’avant garde soviétique » in 2003, were published, in l’édition Numéro 9, printemps 2004, magazine Hors-Champ, Lausanne, on Soviet Neccrorealisme, or « L’art en action » in 2007, published by
le Musée de l’objet/ École d’art de Blois.
2010
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
Phil Hoffman, All Fall Down
Pip Chodorov, Free Radicals
Peter Downsbrough 5 films
L’Abominable Films
Cinéma Les Studios, Tours
Wanshuen Tsai, films des artistes taiwanais
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
Prayoga Films
2009
« Cycle Unserer Politischereise »
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
Danièle Huillet and Jean Marie Straub : Klassenverhältenisse / Amerika Rapports de Classe
Alexandre Kluge, Volker Schlöndorf, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel, Hans
Peter Cloos, Edgar Reitz et Maximiliane Mainke :
Deutschland im herbst
Slatan Dudow (scenario de Bertoldt Brecht) : Kuhle
Wampe
L’exposition « Kitsch Catch », Musée de l’Objet
/ École d’art de Blois, Dans le cadre de la soirée «
Corps de héros »
Derek Woolfenden, Black’s Back
« Arbre de Transmission »
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
Guy Sherwin, Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow,
Anthony MacCall, Carolee Schneeman, Jud Yalkut,
Ken Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, Maya
Deren, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter, Viking
Eggeling,
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
« En attendant la révolution » 4 films de Ken Jacobs,
Cinéma Les Studios, Tours
« Rétrospective Ashish Avikunthak »,« Japan »,
Ashish Avikunthak,
Cinéma Les Studios, Tours
Jun’ichi Okoyuma, Ichiro Sueoka, Yo Ota, Ryusuke Ito, Keitaro Oshima, Naoyuki Tsuji, Akira
Mizoyushi, dans le cadre du neuvième festival de
cinéma asiatique de Tours.
« One11 with 103 » John Cage et Henning Löhner.
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
2008
« Tous à l’eau »
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau et Robert Flaherty,
Michael Mazière,
« Farocki » Avec des films de Harun Farocki
Université François Rabelais.
« MEDIA MAGICA »Avec le film de Werner Nekes, Was geschah wirklich zwischen den
Bildern?Université François Rabelais.
« Débuts »
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours,
Etienne-Jules Marey, James & John Whitney, Ed
Emshwiller, Steina and Woody Vasulka
« The Residents » Avec les films et vidéos de The
Residents, École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
« DHLLOOOWY/YWOOOLLHD » Peter Tscherkassky, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, École supérieure
des beaux-arts de Tours
« Unfiction » Avec les films de Pat O’Neill, École
supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours
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Programmation :
2007
« Vidéoconférence de Michael Snow », et trois films
: New York Eye and Ear Control, Wavelength, See
You Later / Au revoir, Université François Rabelais
« Conférence de Takahiko Iimura » Université
François Rabelais
« Cinéma expérimental japonais » Avec Ryusuke
Ito, Hoshu Kurokawa, Jun Miyazaki, Keitaro
Oshima, Ichiro Sueoka, Akira Mizuyoshi, Yo Ota
et Noriyuki Haraguchi, Jun’ichi Okuyama, Masaru
Noto, Yo Ota, Naoyuki Tsuji, Huitième Festival de
Cinéma Asiatique de Tours, Cinéma Les Studios,
Tours, Présentation de Yo Ota
« L’art en action », Musée de l’Objet / École d’art de
Blois :
http://www.davidkidman.com
« Le Septième Artisanat » un cinéma structurel
narratif, Cinéma Studios, Tours
« Liu Wei, documentaires », Festival de Cinéma
asiatique de Tours, École des beaux-Arts de Tours,
Tours
« Corpus Callosum » Michael Snow, Université
François Rabelais
« Artistes 3 », Uri Tzaig, Ken Kobland, Miranda
July, Université François Rabelais
« China Action 2 » Ma Yongfeng, Xing Gang,
Huang Yan, Zhang Yanxiang,Chau Yeuk Chiu,
Cai Qing, Liu Wei, Huang Yan, Wu Ershan, Feng
Mengbo, Une sélection de vidéos et de performances récentes d’artistes chinois.
« The Movie Disinvented » Martial Raysse, JeanJacques Lebel, Robert Filliou, Christian Boltanski,
Lars Movin
2005
« High Tech allergy » Vito Acconci, Salvador Dali,
Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, Brigitte Cornand
« Au bord de la nuit » John Cage, Musée de l’Objet
/ l’École d’Art de Blois
« What’s so funny ? » John Smith, Carl Brown et
Michael Snow, Steve Hawley, Université François
Rabelais
« China Action 1 » Hu Yuepeng, Liu Jin, Ma Yongfeng, Lin Bing, Gao Xiaola, Han Bing, Xie Jianbo et
Liang Jianbin, Yang Zhichao, Han Bing, Lin Bing
et Hei Tianlin, Centre Chorégraphique National de
Tours
« Protocols » Marcelline Filliou, Man Ray, Salvador Dali & Luis Bunuel, John Armleder & Ecart,
Robert Filliou
Brakhage, Joost Rekveld, École d’Art de Blois.
2006
« Rétrospective Robert Frank » Pull my Daisy,
Conversation in Vermont, The Present, Conférence
Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Université François Rabelais
« History remix » Performance, avec Paul D. Miller
/ DJ Spooky that subliminal kid. ReBirth of a Nation, Université François Rabelais.
« Artistes 2 : Are you talkin’ to me ? » Gary Hill,
Anri Sala, Peter Downsbrough, Pia Ronicke, Université François Rabelais
« China Arts » (une contribution au 6ème Festival
de cinéma asiatique de Tours), Ma Yongfeng, Wu
Ershan, Wang Gong Xin, Liu Wei, Huang Yuan,
Feng Mengbo, Jiang Zhi, Cinéma Studios, Tours
« Cinéma expérimental japonais » Jun’ichi Okuyama, Ryusuke Ito, Shingo Yoshinaga, Ichiro Sueoka,
Hoshu Kurokawa, Masaru Noto, Yo Ota, Shiho
Kano,Takashi Ishida, Naoyuki Tsuji, Akira Mi
David Kidman
zuyushi, Jun Miyazaki, Kentaro Onitsuka, Tetsuya
Hiroshima présenté par Yo Ota (contribution au
6ème Festival de cinéma asiatique de Tours)
« Sculpter », Gordon Matta-Clark, Anthony MacCall,
« Une histoire », Hy Hirsh, Jordan Belson, Viking
Eggeling, Harry Smith, James and John Whitney,
École d’Art de Blois.
2004
« Dessiner »,
Len Lye, Robert Breer, Norman McClaren, Stan
Brakhage, Joost Rekveld, École d’Art de Blois.
« Fluxfilms », Université François Rabelais
« Peindre » Len Lye, Patrick Bokanowski, John
Baldessari, David Kidman, Patrick Bokanowski,
École d’Art de Blois.
« Locomotion », Henri Chomette, Kohei Ando,
Bruce Baillie, Takashi Ito, Gary Beydler, David
Leister, Jun’ichi Okuyama, Université François
Rabelais
« Reprise 1. et 2. »,
Henri Storck, Joseph Cornell, Vanda Carter, Karel
Doing, Cécile Fontaine, Pat O’Neill, Cinéma Studios
« Stones », Jean-Luc Godard, One Plus One , 1968,
Cinéma Studios
« Artistes » Christian Boltanski, Jacques Monory,
Michael Brynntrup, Eija-Liisa Ahtila.
Université François Rabelais
« Des films lettristes », Carte blanche et conférence
de Frédérique Devaux, Université François Rabelais
« La région centrale », Michael Snow, Université
François Rabelais
« Séance Empirique » Pavillon d’exposition, Musée
de l’Objet, Blois.
« Midweek » Week-end, Jean-Luc Godard, Université François Rabelais
2003 1995 :
Arthur et Corinne Cantrill, Bruce Baillie, Peter Kubelka, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Paul
Strand et Charles Sheeler, Fernand Léger et Dudley
Murphy, Eugène Deslaw, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,
Marcel Duchamp, Steve Hawley, Simon Hartog,
Peter Gidal, Simon Hartog, Malcom Le Grice,
Chris Garratt, David Leister, Ichiro Sueoka, Jun’ichi
Okuyama, Shingo Yoshinaga, Akira Mizuyoshi,
Ryusuke ItoJun Otani, Yo Ota, Shiho Kano, Evgenij
Kondratiev, Petr Pospelov, Igor & Gleb Aleinikov
et Evgenij Kondratiev, Vladimir Zakharov, Chapaev Film Group. James et John Whitney, Peter
Gidal, John Latham, Chris Garratt, Leister, Ken
Jacobs, Anthony McCall, Henri Chomette, Martin
Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky, Jun’ichi Okuyama,
Hollis Frampton, Georges Rey, Joris Ivens, Jacques Monory, Gianni Castagnoli. Sarah Darmon,
Raphael Siboni, Deco Dawson, Kano Shiho, Colas
Ricard et Martin Gracineau, Robert Todd, Naomie
Uman, Othello Vilgard, Pip Chodorov, George
Dunning, Gary Beydler, Takeshi Ito, Scmelzdahin,
Nicolas Rey, Jonas Mekas, Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, Marcel Mazé, Stéphane Marti, Valérie
Kempeneers, Sarah Darmon, Patrick Bokanowski,
Takahiko Iimura, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka,
Stan Vanderbeek, Maya Deren, Jane et Louise
Wilson, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney. Ken Kobland, Georges Lucas, Jean-Marie Straub / Danièle
Huillet, Chantal Akerman, Godfrey Reggio, Laura
Mulvey / Peter Wollen, Bruce Baillie, Dziga Vertov,
John Baldessari, Sadie Benning, Oskar Fischinger,
Len Lye, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Robert
Breer, Maurice Lemaitre, Hélène Richol, Frédéric Devaux, Michel Amarger, Isidore Isou, Nancy
Holt, Yo Ota, Richard Serra, Georges Rey, Robert
Breer, Pontus Hulten, Eugène Deslaw, Fernand
Léger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Hahn,
Vito Acconci, Robert Morris, Chantal Akerman,
Antonio Muntadas et Marshall Reese, Joan Logue,
Tom Kalin, Beat Streuli, Michael Snow, American
Mutoscope Biograph, Jean Genet, Jonas Mekas,
Man Ray, François Lévy Kuentz, Alain Fleischer,
Douglas Collins, Takashi Ito, Adèle Friedman, Thomas Korschil, Jérôme Leuba, Claude Rutault, Bruno
Lienard, Burt Barr, Maurice Lemaitre, Ken Jacobs,
Marie Menken, Bruce Baillie, Lars Movin, Joseph
Cornell, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski,
Cécile Fontaine, Jeffrey Scher, Jonas Mekas, Kohei
Ando, Raul Ruiz.
Stochastics
HD video or 35mm 6 minutes.
Conception and Direction, David Kidman.
David Kidman
67-71 rue Jean-Baptiste Pigalle,
F-75009 Paris
+ 33 145 267 340
+ 33 681 49 76 02
[email protected]
http://www.davidkidman.com