A sound and visual construction between two static shots on the axis of a street lined with bungalows: the crossroads of a busy street, with trucks and cars; the main street of an average city in North America, the immersion of the camera into the highway flows...
The camera explores a port area and progresses along the sand or gravel mounds, between two static shots on a double drawbridge downtown. A film about the juxtaposition, separation and collection of elements.
The camera follows the walls of a warehouse and pauses before each closed opening, producing a series of "paintings" that punctuate shots of the city, its organization and flow.
A sound, linguistic and visual composition unfolds from a meeting room located in the heights of a skyscraper at La Défense in Paris. A film about the inside/outside relationship, the built environment as the natural environment for men.
Three buildings beside water, a map of a North American city, the flow of a highway with distant hills in the background, a slow passage on a suspension bridge towards a business center: a film about the passage of time and displacement.
A few piano chords on warehouses shots where human presence is discreet. A film about economy, its organization and its laws, the prima of the structure on what animates it.
In La vie d'artiste, the reading of photo-stories is altered by the addition of a contrasting narration about contemporary art so that each phrase becomes an absurd, humorous slogan.
The artist's first comprehensive monograph, with specially commissioned essays, as well as numerous reproductions and, for the first time, the preparatory drawings for the films and installations.
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A set of incisive, funny and poetic drawings by the Belgian artist, capturing the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works.
This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. The limited edition is accompanied with a box set signed and enhanced with the stamp of two parallel lines, as well as an original work, folded and inserted in the book.
This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. A work on the notion of position and centring which questions the relationship between space and language.
Monograph with texts by Eva González-Sancho,
Michel Gauthier, Line Herbert-Arnaud and Richard Klein, exploring different aspects of Downsbrough's work (movies, maps, space...).
A mix of absurd poetry and homemade music, these seven songs and two instrumentals give life to Frédéric Le Junter and Pierre Berthet's musical creations founded on quirky objects.
Belgian soprano Sarah Defrise dedicates her first new music album to the American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, featuring exclusively a capella pieces which were written for Berberian by some of the most prominent composers of her time.
12'' vinyl reissue of the rare & infamous double-7'' originally published by FMP in 1973. Recordings from a Free Jazz workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, Han Bennink.