ASTON MARTIN DB2. Le Mans 1951. Slow Motion

Documentaire d'Archives a propos de la participation des Aston Martin DB2 aux 24 Heures du Mans 1951, face aux Jaguar C et Cunningham C2R.
#24 Aston Martin DB2; Parnell-Hampshire  7em
#25 Aston Martin DB2; Abecassis-Shawe Taylor     5em
#26 Aston Martin DB2; Macklin_Thompson    3em
#27 Aston Martin DB2; P.Clark- Scott       13em
#28 Aston Martin DB2; Mann-Morris Goodall     10em

"PANTHEON" .Film Bolex 16MM et 816. Paris 1986.

"PANTHEON" .Film Bolex 16MM et 816. Paris 1986.

Un Film Experimental de Jacques Fhima, en Kodachrome 40 et Noir  et Blanc. Une ascencion vers la nef Centrale du Pantheon a 82 metres du sol. Attention ,gare au vertige. Poursuite infernale entre une souris et un Professeur de Chimie qui se transformera en Mage. Ode a l'Architecture et a la peinture neo-classique. Tourne en plein hiver avec un soleil d'enfer.  Comediens: William Abello et Jacques Fhima. Production GOUMEN et Abello.

 

 

 

Le Portrait de Marguerite Gauthier

Le portrait de Marguerite Gauthier. Video 8mm Couleur
Muet et Sonore de Jacques Fhima. 1988

Realisation d'un film loufoque et dejante par la bande des Goumen de l'epoque en Video 8mm, avec Ariane Licha, William Abello, Jacques Fhima, Christophe Sartori, Francois Prudhomme..etc
Dans les premiers decombres deblayes du Studio Goumen, 2 bis Cite Aubry, par force travail, en lumiere naturelle, a l'ancienne parcequ'il n'y avait pas encore de toit. Une petite perle a decouvrir car jamais edite tel quel.

 C'est l'age d'or du Studio Goumen, ou tout est permis et ou on se permet tout. Fucus entre la reparation du toit et Abello entre deux decors, ainsi que Sartori, en profitent pour faire un film dont le fil conducteur est un portrait photographique du debut du siecle dernier, taxer a Bernard le broc. Un regal de clownerie et d'impros.

RAMDAM, Studio Goumen 1992

RAMDAM, FR3, 1992.

Realise par Anne Pastor pour FR3, Le Premier et magistral documentaire sur le Studio Goumen, donnera au lieu son assise et sa reconnaissance definitive dans le monde de la creation et de l'imaginaire. Goumen est ne d'un reve impossible sur les ruines d'une usine de fabrication de meubles appartenant a Melle Septfons. (voire historique). Dans un prochain post je publierais les rushs concerves dans la Cinematheque Tarkus, mais pour le moment regal de quelques minutes.

MY OWN PATH

My most important influence in term of concept in Art and Philosophy came from the Dadaist and the Situationist.I start writing text and manifests, poetry and collective revue, performance and experimental movies. At the beginning of the 70's i was already in search of the possibility to capture space and time with a little pocket camera, some pencils and a typewriter . I was too young to be involved in events, but i succeed to get in places like the Modern Art Museum of Trocadero, The Grand Palais, The Museum d'Histoire naturelle du Jardin des Plantes, Le Musee des Arts Africains et Oceaniens de la porte Doree.I was curious about  anthropology  and topography of the City, the Library and the Bookshops where in the Center of my approach of New Art Models. I was a complete autodidact, and my culture was Mosaic and novice.....I had nobody to ask the way, i made my own path....

As far as I remember myself, i am  and will always deal with space and material.
My work is very close or similar with the work of Archeology. I look at the place i am and try to understand the component , and then the composition. I search for the material and through it understand the history of the space. The second thing is that i love books, or more precisely paper and every printed material....from writings to comics book.
In the early years,  I start to edit kind of fanzine, one copy magazine made of collage and text. My room started to be an Encyclopedia Library of what is possible to find in the street, and the garbage of Paris where very rich of treasure for a creative child. I was not afraid to carry from Opera to La Bastille tones of magazines, books , piece of woods.....my bag was always full.
So i was very aware very early, of what is composition, creation, plastic art...because of an eternal curiosity, i was always finding myself in the Museum, i made friend with some people in Beaubourg and getting free entrance to see exhibition of contemporary Art...I was involved with project dealing with artistic capacity in school and outside....never stop searching, creating, writing and be in communication with this world who became very familiar to me......

My first big work started the 4th of July 1977 and was called "Investigation" by Goumen Produktion.
I was working for a summer job for IBM, and was in contact with the first photocopier.....for one month the copier never stop to work......i was printing everything I found....every text, every picture.....it was a crazy work of copyist, between 1000 to 1500 copies......
After this experience, I was always looking for a job that put me in contact with some printer......

In October or November 1977, in the closet of a friend house, I found my first movie camera...i ask if i can take it and i make my first movie in 8mm, and i never stop still 1998...one movie a week, 20 years of non stop filming in this format.....

Looking for a place to create;
My room was not big enough, so in 1983 I start to investigate the City for a big place, usually abandoned to film, picture, built or create.......in 1985 , in the winter i enter a big factory who was burn down, and without no permission, i start to work in it....after 3 years it became a big Artist factory and i stay in till 1995......my brother continue for ten more years....the place has been demolished one year ago......

So with all those process, i develop my own techniques, accumulate, analysis of the place, creativity and presentation to a public or a different source.....I left behind me, the memory of me; construction, experience, knowledge, solidity.

In fact my conclusion can be the word; Memory.

 

 

PRELIMINARY MANIFESTO FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SITUATION APPLIED TO GOUMEN.

PRELIMINARY MANIFESTO FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SITUATION
APPLIED TO GOUMEN.

The concept GOUMEN of a "constructed situation"
is not limited to a single use of artistic means contributing to a "mood" , so great can be the spatio-temporal extent and strength of the atmosphere.

The situation GOUMEN is in the  same time, unit behavior in time.

It is made of actions contained in the decor of a gesture moment. These gestures are the product of decor and themselves. They produce other forms of decors and other gestures.

How can we direct these forces?
How can we contribute to the construction of a situation GOUMEN?

  We will not settle for empirical testing environments which we expect surprises, by mechanical provocation.

Actually the experimental direction of the activity of GOUMEN is the establishment  from desires more or less clearly recognized, a favorable field of temporary activity to these desires.

Each of those who participate in this adventure to find a field of positive activity, has the listening of the general atmosphere to realize.

Everyone should get what he loves, what attracts and what matters , is not the individual structure of the mind, or the explanation of its formation, it  is its possible application in Goumen constructed situation.

POST CARD FROM THE PAST

Post Card From the Past

the 17 September 2013 I receive from the south of France a Package containing all the post cards that i send for 20 years to my friend Michel F.

 He wrote me a proposition of text for the exhibition.

Meanwhile, two old still young friends threw between them a deck of post cards. They had never stopped writing since they met at a tender age, never ceased to make the strangest packages, to make travel  books and words, to put themselves at the service of the universal diaspora of human documents . They constantly had their papers in an imaginary customs tolerated smuggling impressions.
So these postcards, the case of one of their games. They said this to each of the editors, the immediacy of a fleeting vision, the revelation of a personal trait or fancy a whim.
They were, and remain, these postcards, precisely contemporary. Stamped with the image of countries that no longer exist, sometimes beyond the occlusion, leading to see images of a world removed. Both anachronistic, timeless and can no longer dating, they would sneak between Israel and France in ultra-modern aircraft as stowaways poetry. And all, they reached their destination as air. So yes, contemporary, as improbable.
Today, they are liable, an invitation to travel through time and space and would recall that life likes to slip into the gaps, against any rapid normalization of trade.
Write to us, we will answer!

Jacques Fhima and Michel Francesconi