Guillaume Cailleau

Guillaume Cailleau
Guillaume Cailleau
Born	15 February 1978 (age 46); Saumur, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Berlin University of the Arts

Guillaume Cailleau (born 15 February 1978 in Saumur) is a French artist, filmmaker and producer whose interest lies in exploring new forms to address political and social issues.

Biography

From 2006 to 2011 Guillaume Cailleau studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and was a postgraduate student under Heinz Emigholz. Before his art studies he graduated as an engineer from Icam in Nantes. He also worked as a cinema projectionist in Paris and Berlin.

In 2007 Guillaume Cailleau shot his first short film Blitzkrieg, which premiered at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Other films followed, such as Through, a reference to Michael Snow's installation Windowed Water (2007), the manually processed film H(I)J (2009), and Austerity Measures (2012), a collaboration with Ben Russell shot in Athens. In February 2014 Guillaume Cailleau was awarded a Silver Bear for his short film Laborat at the Berlinale Film Festival.^[1]^[2]^[3] Since 2009 Guillaume Cailleau has been a member of the independent film collective LaborBerlin. As a freelance video artist, he has worked in theater productions by Thomas Ostermeier, Hakan Savaş Mican und Mala Kline. In addition Cailleau developed numerous audiovisual performances, for instance with the experimental sound artist Werner Dafeldecker and the composer and conductor Timo Kreuser which were featured at international venues such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2014), Scratch Expanded Paris (2013) and COLOR SOUND FRAMES (2015)^[4] at Serralves Museum.

In addition to his own artistic practice, Cailleau successfully produces films with his company CASKFILMS,^[5] collaborating with artists such as Ben Russell, Gustavo Jahn, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner and Lucile Desamory. Cailleau is co-producer of Ben Russell's Film "Good Luck" (2017), which premiered at the Locarno Festival and was shown as a 4-channel video installation at documenta 14 in Kassel.

Style

Guillaume Cailleau's work is influenced by American avant-garde cinema and performative practices in Expanded Cinema. Experimenting with duration, multiple exposures, color separation and manually treated single images, in addition to other methods of image editing, the forms of his films relate directly to their subjects. The process of filmmaking is often foregrounded in the artist's poetic compositions.

Filmography (selection)

2007: Blitzkrieg (short film, Premiere 54. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)
2008: Through; with Benjamin Krieg (short film, Premiere 59. Berlinale, Forum Expanded)
2009: H(I)J (short film, Premiere NYFF 2009, Views from the Avant-Garde)
2012: Austerity Measures; with Ben Russell (Premiere 62. Berlinale, Forum Expanded)
2013: Abdou's Dread in Teatro Argentina, Roma (short film, Premiere Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013)
2014: Laborat (short film, Premiere 64. Berlinale, Short Film Competition)
2014: Hanging (Premiere Kienzle Art Foundation)
2016: Organ Movement_For Elmer Kussiac_ (music video, Premiere 62. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)
2019: Wunderschein (short film, Premiere Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019)
2020: "A Kind of World War" with Anselm Franke (medium Length, Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
2024: Direct Action co-director with Ben Russell

Installations (selection)

2010: Un nuage, Temps Organiques, MIRE cinéma expérimental & image en mouvement, Nantes 2012
2010: Creative Commons, CONTACT, Royal Ontario Museum Toronto
2011: Flowed, Dada Post, Berlin
2012: Lucile's Ghost on Atlas Top, Bruxelles, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin
2013: WILD WILD, mit Hanna Slak, Doppeltes Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2018: FunktionsLust Masons Screen, Wellington, NZ (site specific)^[6]
2019: WUNDERSCHEIN - Play_Station, Wellington, NZ / Audiofoundation, Auckland, NZ^[7]
2020 the interest are at stakes, As KREUSER/CAILLEAU with Timo Kreuser, Plesungan Studio SOLO / Goethe House Jakarta/ BACC Bangkok/ ^[8]
2020 KELBURN - WIP Mirarnos a los ojos'Bienal de la Imagen en Moviemento, Buenos Aires,Argentina.^[9]

Performances (selection)

2013 #2.0x, with Jan Slak, Scratch Expanded Paris
2015 Resonator II, with Werner Dafeldecker, Serralves Museum
2015 Resonator III, with Werner Dafeldecker und Splitter Orchester, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Musik für alle
2015 Compound Interest, with Timo Kreuser, Figura Festspiele 2015, Copenhagen
2016 Exchange Rates, with Timo Kreuser, Biegungen, Ausland Berlin
2019 BESTIMMT as part of IAN WHITE – CINEMA AS A LIVE ART / BECOMING OBJECT, Berlin, DE
2019 TOXIC EXCHANGE, As KREUSER/CAILLEAU, NZ tour
2019 Eye becomes instrument, Audiofoundation, Auckland, NZ
2020 the interest are at stakes, As KREUSER/CAILLEAU with Timo Kreuser, BACC Bangkok & South Asia tour,

Awards

2014: Silver Bear Prize of the Jury, 64. Berlinale for Laborat^[3]
2015: Jury Award Flexfest 2015 for Laborat
2016: 2nd Prize, 62. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for Organ Movement_For Elmer Kussiac_
2024: Best Film Award / Encounters, 74. international Berlin Film Festival for DIRECT ACTION
2024: Special mention, Berlinale Documentary award, 74. international Berlin Film Festival for DIRECT ACTION
2024: Grand Prix, Cinéma du réel 2024, Paris for DIRECT ACTION

References

^ "| Berlinale | Archive | Annual Archives | 2014 | Prize Winners". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
^ "| Berlinale | Archiv | Jahresarchive | 2014 | Pressefotos – Guillaume Cailleau" (in German). Retrieved 27 July 2017.
^ ^a ^b "64th Berlin Film Fest: List of official and independent juries' awards". Ahram Online. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
^ "Jazz.pt | Report | Improvisação sinestésica". Retrieved 27 July 2017.
^ "Production | CaSk Films". Mysite.
^ https://www.circuit.org.nz/writing-and-podcast/the-24-hours-plan-3-commissions-for- masons-screen
^ "WUNDERSCHEIN". www.circuit.org.nz.
^ "Kreuser--Cailleau-The-Interests-are-at-Stake- | bacc.or.th". en.bacc.or.th.
^ https://bim.com.ar/mirarnos-a-los-ojos/artists

External links

Guillaume Cailleau at IMDb
Guillaume Cailleau on the Experimental Cinema Database
Films by Guillaume Cailleau on rental at Lightcone Paris
Films by Guillaume Cailleau on rental at arsenal Berlin
Homepage of Laborat by Guillaume Cailleau
Performances von Guillaume Cailleau on Vimeo
Interview with Guillaume Cailleau, Short Talks, 64. Berlinale 2014
Text on works by Guillaume Cailleau
2023

as-a-live-art-becoming-object/] Ian White – cinema as a live art / becoming object Arsenal, Berlin (2019)

sounds-and-imagery-of-money.html "Jakarta post on The interests are at Stake"

[1] "| Berlinale | Archive | Annual Archives | 2014 | Prize Winners". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

[2] "| Berlinale | Archiv | Jahresarchive | 2014 | Pressefotos – Guillaume Cailleau" (in German). Retrieved 27 July 2017.

[Ahram_Online_2014-3] "64th Berlin Film Fest: List of official and independent juries' awards". Ahram Online. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

[4] "Jazz.pt | Report | Improvisação sinestésica". Retrieved 27 July 2017.

[5] "Production | CaSk Films". Mysite.

[6] ttps://www.circuit.org.nz/writing-and-podcast/the-24-hours-plan-3-commissions-for- masons-screen

[7] "WUNDERSCHEIN". www.circuit.org.nz.

[8] "Kreuser--Cailleau-The-Interests-are-at-Stake- | bacc.or.th". en.bacc.or.th.

[9] ttps://bim.com.ar/mirarnos-a-los-ojos/artists

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Guillaume Cailleau

Born	(1978-02-15) 15 February 1978 (age 46) Saumur, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Berlin University of the Arts