Christian Boltanski
Christian Liberté Boltanski was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style.
Le Filmeur (2005)
From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death. Made of moments of life, fragments of images, this film composes a mosaic where the spectator is invited to also find his place by himself... (more)
From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death. Made of moments of life, fragments of images, this film composes a mosaic where the spectator is invited to also find his place by himself... (more)
Le Passage (2019)
A crowd, seen from the back, slowly disappears. Boltanski created this work for the exhibition "Faire son temps" (Life in the making) at Centre Pompidou. (more)
A crowd, seen from the back, slowly disappears. Boltanski created this work for the exhibition "Faire son temps" (Life in the making) at Centre Pompidou. (more)
À la recherche de Christian B. (1991)
Christian Boltanski is one of the greatest contemporary French artists, known the world over. The narrator, who once knew Boltanski, attempts to reassemble the images of a friend he hasn't seen in twenty years. This is the starting point for a kind of investigation ... (more)
Christian Boltanski is one of the greatest contemporary French artists, known the world over. The narrator, who once knew Boltanski, attempts to reassemble the images of a friend he hasn't seen in twenty years. This is the starting point for a kind of investigation ... (more)
Entre-temps (2003)
Entre-temps (Between-times) combines photos of Boltanski at different ages. Originally projected in a loop on a plastic curtain for its first exhibition at he Yvon Lambert gallery in 1996, it is presented now on a string curtain. We see the artist age and then ... (more)
Entre-temps (Between-times) combines photos of Boltanski at different ages. Originally projected in a loop on a plastic curtain for its first exhibition at he Yvon Lambert gallery in 1996, it is presented now on a string curtain. We see the artist age and then ... (more)
Trying to Describe Oneself (2005)
Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journey, ... (more)
Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journey, ... (more)
Animitas Chili (2014)
Initially created in the form of an installation in the Atacama Desert in Chile, Animitas pays homage to memorial altars. Filmed in a single static shot from sunrise to sunset, with a ground-level view of an expanse of fresh flowers, the work captures the sound of ... (more)
Initially created in the form of an installation in the Atacama Desert in Chile, Animitas pays homage to memorial altars. Filmed in a single static shot from sunrise to sunset, with a ground-level view of an expanse of fresh flowers, the work captures the sound of ... (more)
Misterios (2017)
On his search to find an answer to the question of destiny, Boltanski travelled to the north of Patagonia, where whales gather at certain periods of the year. Legend has it that whales harbour the secrets of the universe. With the help of acoustic enginners, he ... (more)
On his search to find an answer to the question of destiny, Boltanski travelled to the north of Patagonia, where whales gather at certain periods of the year. Legend has it that whales harbour the secrets of the universe. With the help of acoustic enginners, he ... (more)
Animitas blanc (2017)
Boltanski created "Animitas" in the Atacama Desert, a location steeped in history. The title of the work comes from the name given by Chileans to the religious altars erected on roadsides to mark the spot where an accident occurred. Tiny bells attached to long rods ... (more)
Boltanski created "Animitas" in the Atacama Desert, a location steeped in history. The title of the work comes from the name given by Chileans to the religious altars erected on roadsides to mark the spot where an accident occurred. Tiny bells attached to long rods ... (more)
L'homme qui tousse (1969)
Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood. (more)
Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood. (more)
L'homme qui lèche (1969)
A man at the feet of a seated woman, who looks like a big doll, licking her whole body. (more)
A man at the feet of a seated woman, who looks like a big doll, licking her whole body. (more)
A woman crawls on the floor of an empty room. (more)
Essai de reconstitution des 46 jours qui précédèrent la mort de Françoise Guiniou (1971)
A young woman threatened with expropriation decides to shut herself in her apartment with her two children, until death ensues. Boltanski, following the logic of despair, shows us the unimaginable. (more)
A young woman threatened with expropriation decides to shut herself in her apartment with her two children, until death ensues. Boltanski, following the logic of despair, shows us the unimaginable. (more)
L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard (1974)
A camera surveys an abandoned apartment, while the voiceover describes it inhabited. (more)
A camera surveys an abandoned apartment, while the voiceover describes it inhabited. (more)
Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse (1974)
This performance was recorded in the presence of an audience. In his act, Boltanski deals with various incidents from his childhood. All the sketches are set in the past, which suggests that most of the characters are no longer alive. (more)
This performance was recorded in the presence of an audience. In his act, Boltanski deals with various incidents from his childhood. All the sketches are set in the past, which suggests that most of the characters are no longer alive. (more)
La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski (1968)
Trimmed photographs taken from different sources such as postcards, newspapers, police registries, and family photo albums, creating a vast art installation, merge Christian Boltanski's everyday life and lost memories. (more)
Trimmed photographs taken from different sources such as postcards, newspapers, police registries, and family photo albums, creating a vast art installation, merge Christian Boltanski's everyday life and lost memories. (more)
Subliminal (2020)
4 channel video installation, sound, continuous loop Dimensions variable (more)
4 channel video installation, sound, continuous loop Dimensions variable (more)