Movies: Pascal Baes

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Mathematical re-composition of fragments of old 16mm films through a heightfield effect. Images have been digitally enhanced, and blacks and whites have been boosted. The end result is 3D images which create an explosion of light and colour....

These experiments for Baes’s stop motion film ‘46 bis, rue de Belleville’ are an art work in its own right. The stop motion technique he uses belongs to the realm of animation. He never handles the camera in an obvious way, but shoots frame per frame...

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Pascal Baes experiments with the reflecting feedback of a video projector in a meticulous interaction with a performance by his life companion Aï Suzuki. In post-processing, the images were digitally edited, which results in an expressionist, abstrac...

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"Pixilation applied to dance, on the theme of tango." -PB...

Long exposure work, frame by frame, in the streets of Prague. "East" atmosphere of confinement and self-censorship, foreboding and deleterious....

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A 16mm time-lapse of Tokyo gives way to footage of amphibious and crustacean goings-on. Soundtrack by DJ Pangeol....