Laurent Vicente
Born in 1973 in Cannes (France).
Lives and works in Paris.

Les doubres
Colour video, 4 min, 2000. VIDEO BY LAURENT VICENTE AND THOMAS BERNARDET
2nd prize, Vidéoformes festival Clermont-Ferrand 2002
Special prize, Transmediale Tm festival,n Berlin, 2002.
1st prize ex-aequo Opera Prima, Estavar Llivia festival, 2001.

Gliding, sliding, jumping. Skate-boarding is what it’s all about. Skate-boarding with no skate-board. The sport is presented here out of its usual context. The absence of the main object reveals the other qualities of this urban activity, such as adaptability and the dance effect.


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wawawa.barcelon
Colour video, 4 min, 2001

This video is about the descriptive limits of perception. The ordinariness of the main story is erased by the exaggerated mannerisms of the narrator.

Duplicate Layers
Colour video. Ambiance. 19 min. 2001/2002. Directed by Laurent Vicente. Photography: Thomas Bernadet.

Ultra-urban video. Everything that can be erased, drawn and modelled disappears from our reality. The virtual passage through places and events creates their own disappearance. It’s a stamp on our collective memory.
Disappearance is seen as a last visual memorisation.

Just say no
Colour video, 1 min 30, 2000

This video is a mixture of urban, popular and media slogans, as well as family truths. To each situation and street confrontation, the director replies by a truth that embarrasses no one. Everything is real, except what you see, read and hear.

Archiskate
Colour video, 5 min, 2000.
2001 prize at Estavar Llivia festival

Archiskate underlines our faculty for adapting, on a human and personal level, to an urban environment that structures and forms our sphere of activity and our field of vision. Even the tallest sky scrapers in the world can’t contain the force between our forefinger and our thumb in the perspective of our eye.

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