Simon Quéheillard

ActivitiesDirector, Screenwriter, Director of Photography

SecteurCinema

Biography

Simon Quéheillard is a French artist, born in 1977, in Bordeaux. He lives in Paris. His work revolves around different practices: video, objects, writing. His works always start from a physical principle and its variations: the reflection of light in a puddle of water, the mechanical movement of an escalator, the passage of a crowd, the observation of wind, the passage of semi-trailer trucks, or falling trees in the forest. He has published two books of prose poems, The picture in the paper and A large pale world, outlined. His recent video works, Master-wind (Images festival Toronto, AVIFF Cannes, Punto de Vista), From beginnings to beginnings (Fid Marseille, IVHAM Madrid), are part of video art and the history of slapstick cinema. The artist is a “catastrophe operator”. It triggers mechanisms over which he no longer has any control. In this line, his latest video work An ambush in suspense, presented at the IndieLisboa festival, is described by the artist as a “life-size slapstick”.

Filmography

An ambush in suspense, Production La forêt d’art contemporain, 2022
From beginings to beginings, Spectres Production, 2016 (Fid Marseille, IVHAM Madrid)
Master-wind, Production Khiasma, 2012 (Images festival Toronto, AVIFF Cannes, Punto de Vista Navarre)