Walking Paintings
Ghislain Baizeau
2016 - 11 min - HD - Couleur - France

This film explores the time during which a painting comes into being and the intriguing threshold between control and surrender, between the artist’s inspiration and the role played by natural forces. Shooting very close, the camera reveals that while the paint follows my instincts, it still maintains its own remarkable autonomy in the real time of the creative process.
Embarking on this Walking Painting series, I completely transformed the brush into an experimental tool to play with the force of gravity and the energy of the body moving directly on top of large stretchers, leading to new dynamic forms.
Certain sequences, captured at 1000 images per second, transform perceptions of time and space. Paint particles with their fleeting choreography circulate as though weightless. Intuitive movement generates reliefs and contours after bouncing waves of black eventually come to rest on the canvas, successively sculpting and painting the lines of an abstract landscape.
Original music by Nicolas Namoradze narrates this juxtaposition between forms, forces and movement.