Antoine Viviani

Antoine Viviani ( born 1983) is a French filmmaker, producer, mostly famous for his experimental documentaries In Situ, In Limbo and having founded the farming and artist-residency space called Providenza in Corsica.

Biography

Antoine Viviani was born in Nice in 1983 and originates from Corsica.. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 2007. Antoine Viviani started working with the contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe in Paris . In 2008, he produced with the French experimental filmmaker Vincent Moon and the band R.E.M the documentary Six days that got released with their album Accelerate In 2009, he co-directed with Vincent Moon the feature documentary Little Blue Nothing, a portrait of the Czech viola players and couple Irena and Vojtech Havlovi.

In 2009 he founded the production company Providences and started producing and directing a series of short films called Fugues for the French and German TV channel Arte . In the three episodes series he filmed performances of acclaimed classical music performers in everyday life situations, such as the Diotima String Quartett, the Artemis string quartett, and pianists Edna Stern, Alexander Gurning .

In 2011, he produced and directed in 2011 In Situ a documentary project that consisted in two versions of the same film: a feature-length documentary for the theatre and an interactive online film for the Internet . The project is a documentary essay about artistic interventions in the urban space in Europe, featuring artists and activists Pamelia Kurstin, Irmela Mensah Schramm, Alain Damasio, Paul Ardenne, Zevs, Johann Lorbeer, Jean-Luc Courcoult and Royal de luxe, Llorenç Barber. It received the Doclab Award at IDFA in Amsterdam in 2011 and the Best Film Award at London Open City Documentary Festival in 2012 and got selected in major documentary film festivals around the world .

In 2015, he produced and directed In Limbo, a documentary essay telling the story of a spirit, performed by the French-Canadian writer Nancy Huston, waking up in the maze of data centers all over the world and dissolving into the memory of the Internet, as if it was the only thing that remained. As if the Internet was dreaming of itself, the spirit encounters founding fathers, leaders, life loggers, quantified selves and prophets of the Internet such as Gordon Bell, Brewster Kahle, Cathal Gurrin, and Ray Kurzweil among many others, filmed as ghosts talking to themselves forever, using a special volumetric depth camera . An interactive online shortened version, In Limbo Interactive, was released by Arte and the NFB and one could connect its own digital identity to the film and see his own personal data, sounds, images, as part of the stream of data in the film . The film premiered in Nov. 2015 as part of the international competition of CPH:Dox in Copenhagen, was then selected in more than 50 international film festivals all around the world and presented at Harvard Film Study Center . It is distributed in the US by Grasshopper Films and on Mubi .

In 2019, Antoine Viviani wrote, produced and co-directed with Pierre Alain Giraud a location-based augmented-reality art installation called Solastalgia. The installation debuted in the Champs Libres museum in Rennes, France, where it opened in November 2019 until the end of March 2020. Wearing a specific AR equipment, a group of 10 people explores a 400 square meter landscape of a deserted, post apocalyptic future where the last generations have decided to transform into ghosts, thanks to a machine, repeating the same gestures over and over again, haunting the planet forever . Antoine Viviani has said to have been largely inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Morel Invention to write the experience. Icelandic visual artist Gabriela Fridriksduttir, composer Valgeir Sigurdson and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir collaborated on the piece . Solastalgia got selected in the 2020 New Frontier selection of the Sundance Film Festival and is to be presented in other museums in the world such as The National Gallery of Iceland in June 2020 .

Providenza

In 2016, Antoine Viviani started the development of the Providenza project on his motherland in Corsica and started the Providenza residency. The Providenza residency consists in a 2 weeks artists-residency on the land of Providenza that happens every year in July, where local and international artists create happenings, performances, staged screenings in order to play with the dramatic landscape of the land Alumni residents include International and Corsican artists like Fabien Danesi, Antoine Thirion, Thierry De Peretti, Laure Limongi, Mati Diop, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, David Moore, Angel Deradoorian, Diana Saliceti, Eduardo Teddy Williams, Kristin Anna Valtysdottir, Mondkopf, Rone, among many others

The Providenza Project consists of the development of a permaculture farm and an artistic studio complex in the mountain near the village of Pieve in Corsica

Works

Films

• 2009: Little Blue Nothing, co-directed with Vincent Moon (50 min)
• 2011: In Situ (83 min)
• 2015: In Limbo (86 min)

Awards and distinctions

• 2012: Doclab Award, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam for In Situ
• 2012: Time Out Best City Film, London Open City Documentary Festival, for In Situ
• 2016: Best Emergent Filmmaker Award, London Open City Docs Festival, for In Limbo
• 2016: Prix de la création, Festival Traces de vie, for In Limbo

Installation

• 2019: Solastalgia, co-directed with Pierre-Alain Giraud

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