Stéphane AZOUZE-CARDIN
Swiss Army knife of image work
[SHADE] French Colorists Association - CST
Exhibit "Terra Incognita" by Luc Jacquet
Musée des Confluences de Lyon
Luc Jacquet, a passionate director and Oscar winner in 2006 for his film "March of the Penguins", follows in the footsteps of great explorers and shares in this exhibition the "fever" of Antarctica, this visceral attachment to polar lands, yet inaccessible and inhospitable. In his footsteps, live a unique and immersive experience, from Patagonia to the South Pole, through sound ambiances and sequences filmed in black and white for his next film "Journey to the South Pole" (released in 2023). After the color calibration of the film for cinema, I had the honor of preparing and setting up the images taken from the rushes of the film used in the scenography of this immersive exhibition. An Icebreaker Studios creation for the Musée des Confluences in Lyon.
Exhibits "Afghanistan Ombres et légendes" & "Sur le fil"
Musée Guimet Paris (MNAAG)
Afghan writer and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi presents "Hamdam", a film made for the exhibition "Sur le fil" as part of MNAAG's Afghan season. This film, which I had the opportunity to grade, blends traditional Afghan dance and Afghan women's textile creations as a cultural and artistic message of resistance against the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan since 2021.
Exhibit "Vivant"
Fondation GoodPlanet
"Vivant" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Exhibition bringing together the works of 11 contemporary artists who reimagine our relationship with the living world and biodiversity. This film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a testimony to the biodiversity encountered throughout the many ecological documentary films in which I was fortunate to participate, was screened in one of the exhibition galleries.
National Museum of Qatar, Doha (NMOQ)
During the museum installation in March 2019, I adapted the visual perception of 2 films projected in 2 galleries on screens composed of large walls and various surfaces, including a 25-meter wide screen, using a live calibration system designed for the occasion by Niceshoes Studio (NYC), Realtime Experience Systems (London), under the supervision of Brice Barbier (Be4Post).
One of the challenges of this very special mission entrusted by the Doha Film Institute was to adapt the final calibration of the films to these gigantic projection supports, mostly sand-dominated surfaces, as well as to compensate for the multiple geometric and chromatic aberrations induced by the organic volumes and by the overlapping of the numerous laser projectors composing the image, so that the visitor could live the visual experience as the creator imagined it.
"Life in Al Barr" directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
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Gallery 5 (25 meters wide - 8K laser projection)
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Mauritanian writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako ("Waiting for Happiness", "Timbuktu") created a breathtaking short film for the gallery about Life in Al Barr (the Desert).
Shot in glimmering black-and-white reminiscent of classic silver-nitrate cinema, Sissako’s 9-minute film was photographed in the Northern Desert of Qatar, and features members of the Bedouin Al Naemi family, who provided some of the props and animals, including the bait al-sha’r—or nomad’s tent.
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"The People of Qatar" directed by John Kane
Gallery 4 (4K laser projection)
Portraits of people of Qatar
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https://www.nmoq.org.qa/film-and-art​
Films produced by
the Doha Film Institute
Exhibit Al-Ula - Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
This special exhibit, hosted at the Paris Institut du Monde Arabe during winter 2019-2020, displayed immersive landscapes films showing ancient temples and gorgeous archeological sites of Al-Ula (Saudi Arabia desert).
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Involved at the very beginning of this unusual project, I prepared the shooting and the color workflow and processed the dailies on the set. Later on in post, once editing was finished, I graded the films that were projected during the exhibit on large walls and many various surfaces.​
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Director : Yann Arthus-Bertrand
DOP : Daniel Meyer
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https://www.imarabe.org/en/expositions/alula-merveille-d-arabie
