Alexandre Larose
- 2013brouillard – passage #14
- 2013brouillard #15
- 2022scènes de ménage: I.
He walks the same path dozens of times and exposes every walk onto one strip of film, until only the light leaves a trace.
Larose trained as an engineer first, earning a mechanical engineering degree from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2001. He then studied film at Concordia University in Montréal, taking a BFA in 2006 and an MFA in 2013. He has said his years as a drummer shaped his feel for rhythm and repetition.
His films are made photochemically, in Super 8, 16mm and 35mm, by layering images in camera and on optical and contact printers, often with devices built for the job. Each film grows out of the one before, as a variation in a series. Many were shot around his parents' home at Lac-Saint-Charles, near Québec City.
In brouillard – passage #14 (2013) he walked from the family property down to the lake again and again, exposing every walk onto a single 1,000-foot roll of 35mm reversal film. His films have screened at the New York Film Festival, TIFF, Rotterdam and the George Eastman Museum.
Films
Where to start with Alexandre Larose, in the order they were made. Runtimes are approximate.
Still from brouillard #15 to come. brouillard #15
Another film in the brouillard series, built from repeated walks from his parents' house to the nearby lake.
Still from brouillard – passage #14 to come. brouillard – passage #14
Repeated walks to Lac-Saint-Charles, layered in camera onto one roll of film, so the path becomes a single pulsing passage of light.
Still from scènes de ménage: I. to come. scènes de ménage: I.
The first of a series of domestic studies with his parents, superimposed in camera and shifting between colour and black and white. It was shot on Super 8, 8mm and 16mm.