Éric Baudelaire (born in 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a
Franco-American artist and filmmaker.Éric Baudelaire was born in Salt
Lake City. He grew up in France, returned to the United States in 1991
to attend Brown University and graduated with a degree in political
science.Éric Baudelaire worked at the Harvard Kennedy School
conducting research for the book The Kennedy Tapes, Inside The White
House During The Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2000, a research trip to
three unrecognized states in the Caucasus with Dr. Dov Lynch of King's
College marked Baudelaire's shift from social science to the visual
arts field. In the course of further journeys to Abkhazia, a de facto
state that seceded from Georgia after the breakup of the Soviet Union,
Baudelaire developed a practice as a photographer, and published the
book États Imaginés (Imagined States) in 2005.While in residency at
the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2008, Baudelaire made two short films,
[sic] and The Makes that were both selected to the International
Rotterdam Film Festival. In Japan, he also began to work on his first
feature film, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi
and 27 Years without Images, in which the story of the Japanese Red
Army is recounted as an Anabasis, an uncertain wandering into the
unknown that eventually becomes a journey home. The story is told
through the voice of May Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the
Japanese Red Army, who lived a clandestine life in Lebanon until the
age of 27, and Masao Adachi, a Japanese experimental film director who
joined the Japanese Red Army in Beirut. The film puts into practice
the "landscape theory" (fûkeiron in Japanese) developed by Masao
Adachi, which proposes to turn the camera not towards the subject of
the film but towards the landscapes in which the subject has lived.
The film premiered at FID Marseille film festival.
Franco-American artist and filmmaker.Éric Baudelaire was born in Salt
Lake City. He grew up in France, returned to the United States in 1991
to attend Brown University and graduated with a degree in political
science.Éric Baudelaire worked at the Harvard Kennedy School
conducting research for the book The Kennedy Tapes, Inside The White
House During The Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2000, a research trip to
three unrecognized states in the Caucasus with Dr. Dov Lynch of King's
College marked Baudelaire's shift from social science to the visual
arts field. In the course of further journeys to Abkhazia, a de facto
state that seceded from Georgia after the breakup of the Soviet Union,
Baudelaire developed a practice as a photographer, and published the
book États Imaginés (Imagined States) in 2005.While in residency at
the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2008, Baudelaire made two short films,
[sic] and The Makes that were both selected to the International
Rotterdam Film Festival. In Japan, he also began to work on his first
feature film, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi
and 27 Years without Images, in which the story of the Japanese Red
Army is recounted as an Anabasis, an uncertain wandering into the
unknown that eventually becomes a journey home. The story is told
through the voice of May Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the
Japanese Red Army, who lived a clandestine life in Lebanon until the
age of 27, and Masao Adachi, a Japanese experimental film director who
joined the Japanese Red Army in Beirut. The film puts into practice
the "landscape theory" (fûkeiron in Japanese) developed by Masao
Adachi, which proposes to turn the camera not towards the subject of
the film but towards the landscapes in which the subject has lived.
The film premiered at FID Marseille film festival.
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