Between the idea and the published book, two years passed. I wanted to change my relationship to the image, to seduction, to creation. The visual silence to which I lent myself transported me into the dream-image: an image that does not show, but that suggests to the eye to go beyond the lines, to allow the imagination to see reality differently. I also wanted to go back to the basis of animation cinema, which is photography. Indeed, when I make an animated film, I take photos, many photos, and movement - time - becomes possible in the rapid succession of these images. But then, this movement devours each of the photos and takes away the charge they carry, to lose them in agitation. After all this photographic wandering, I realise that time can also exist in a still image.
Night blindness, the expandable being
Boran Richard
In the last ten years, Boran Richard has developed an artistic practice in animation and photography. His films have been shown in some sixty international events (Canada, United States, Mexico, France, England, Australia, Greece, Israel, Slovenia, Asia). He has participated in various visual art events including the Baie-St-Paul Symposium in 2006. For the past three years, he has collaborated on various theatre and dance projects as a video artist, lighting designer and set designer. In 2011, a short film was presented at the Regard sur le court-métrage festival, co-directed with Alain Corneau, and he shot the video for the play Les sens at Théâtre de la Rubrique, presented in February. In July 2011, he spent six months in the CALQ studio in Montreal to make an animated dance film.
