Francois Vogel

FRANCOIS VOGEL WAS BORN AND RAISED IN MEUDON, A PARIS SUBURB. HE BEGAN SCI- ENTIFIC STUDIES WHILE PRACTICING DRAWING, PAINTING AND ANIMATION. AFTER ART STUDIES, HE TRAVELS TO THE PACIFIC TO DO HIS MILITARY SERVICE AS A DRUMMER IN NEW CALEDO- NIA. BACK IN PARIS HE DIVIDES HIS TIME BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHY (EXPERIMENTS WITH PINHOLE, MANUFACTURE OF CAMERAS) AND VIDEO (ATTENDING THE VIDEO ARTIST DOMINIK BARBIER, WORKING AS A COMPUTER ARTIST AT MIKROS IMAGE).FOR TWENTY YEARS, HE COMBINES HIS WORK FOR LIVING (ADS) AND HIS WORK AS AN AUTHOR (SHORTS). HIS SHORT FILMS HAVE RECIEVED MANY AWARDS IN FESTIVALS AND HAVE BEEN ON MANY FOCUSES (CLERMONT-FERRAND, DUBAI, SOFIA, SAPPRORO, MILAN, VENDÔME AND VALENCE). BEING A CAMERAS INVENTOR AS WELL AS A VIRTUAL CAMERA MAKER, FRANÇOIS VOGEL IS BOTH AN ARTIST AND A SCIENTIST. SINCE HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENTS TO HIS CREATIONS FILM, HE PLAYS WITH OUR VISION, HE MANIPULATES OUR PERCEPTION OF RE- ALITY AND IMMERSES US IN A UNIQUE UNIVERSE, DISTORTED AS THE CLAY (“CUISINE”, “TOURNIS”, “TROIS PETITS CHATS “), OR FRAGMENTED AS CRYSTAL (“RUE FRANCIS”, “FAUX PLAFOND”,”LES CRABS”). RETROSPECTIVES 15 JUIN 2012 LOS ANGELES (SOHO HOUSE) 13 MARS 2010 CLERMONT-FERRAND (FESTIVAL VIDEOFORMES) 9, 10 AVRIL 2010 DUBAI (GULF FILM FESTIVAL) 6, 9 OCTOBRE 2010 SAPPRORO (SAPPORO SHORT FEST) 8 NOVEMBRE 2010 SOFIA (AGITPROP) 18 NOVEMBRE 2010 VALENCE (CINÉMA LE LUX) 16, 17 NOVEMBRE 2011 MILAN (MOSTRA IN VIDEO) 8 DÉCEMBRE 2011 VENDÔME (FESTIVAL DU FILM DE VENDÔME) 1-6 JUIN 2002 ROME (FESTIVAL ARCHIELAGO)