FILMS & VIDEOS
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LES BALLETS RUSSES
Orsten Groom & Élodie Tamayo
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VIDEO CYCLE
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Les Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets) is a video program combining Found-footage and crazed french text.
A demented Rubik's cube where archive films and the verbial big churn turn into a lyrical toy chest of the failed Creation, left there babbling by a stupid and insane god.
A spectacular collaboration on the hilarious borders of anguish between Orsten Groom and Élodie Tamayo.
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The Ballets Russes taught us
that in History as in Literature,
almost nothing happens.
Interview with the Ballets Russes HERE
BOBOK
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2011- 45 MIN
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JURY PRIZE
CÔTÉ-COURT FESTIVAL - 2011
A corpse runs down a river in a wartime Europa. A vampire with a lost mouth that pulls a dead tongue and sows images as clues.
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Some livings prowl around, patterns proliferate and beasts get involved.
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Entirely handcrafted by Orsten Groom (camera, music, editing and lead actor), BOBOK dips between the macabre cartoon, the abstract thriller and the historical haunting.
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Based on a true story.
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"Wow , that wading cadaver with skewered fish and dangling tongue, all aflame, make for one of the most startling shots in all of film. Orsten Groom's ethos is incredible! Twisted, a little mean, often ugly, always gorgeous! "
Guy Maddin
HEAD TREMOR IN DOG
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2013 - 30 MIN
Orsten Groom's Doppelgänger’s painter Guide to the Easel™.
Head Tremor In Dog is a documentary Musical shot with a pencil camera,
a nightmarish sheath for the duo's wild music, improvised for the occasion under the omen of the Red Herring.
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A GLUES film
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2008 - 11 MIN
After Mikhail Bulgakov
Some simpleton worker goes to the "Authorities" in order to get a "free ticket" that he thought he could benefit from reading a gazette.
He has just put his finger on a carnival Sabbath of shabby eroticism,
with debilitating scents of Politburo.
