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Hubert MARECAILLE
Born in 1973 in Roche-sur-Yon (France).
Lives and works in Brussels.
http://hubertmarecaille.blogspot.com/
http://lesfilmsdudimanche.blogspot.com/
Michelle NAISMITH
Born in 1967 in Glasgow (Scotland).
Lives and works in Brussels.
http://www.michellenaismith.com/
http://lesfilmsdudimanche.blogspot.com/
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Between 2005 and 2009, Hubert Marécaille (La Roche-sur-Yon, France, 1973), a trained economist, worked as a journalist and publishing texts. Since 2000, following a series of radio broadcasts, the author has been creating the character of "Sir Hubert", who he uses in various solo video compositions. Hubert Marécaille relocated to Belgium in 2009, since which time he has focused on developing "philosophical - and absurd - tales", a series of comedy and philosophical sketches with the French actor Jackie Berroyer and, in 2011, on creating the "Journal of apocryphal psychoanalysis", a series of "psycho-pathological dramas", according to the author.
After having studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Glasgow, Michelle Naismith (Scotland, 1967), arrived in Nantes, France, where she was to study, reside and work for many years (solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes in 2007 and the FRAC Pays de la Loire in 2008; Winner of the Visual Arts prize in the city of Nantes in 2006) before moving to Brussels where she currently resides. She mainly uses video, and constructs and explores narrative universes where the characters, often absurd and disturbing, are simultaneously critical substrates of authority and oppression in all its forms, be it, for example, psychiatry or the media, but also the figures of a humanity beset with doubt and melancholy.
In 2010, Michelle Naismith and Hubert Marécaille began writing, producing and interpreting chapters of the series "Les Films du dimanche: Love in the life quotidian". Among the nine chapters presented here are two unpublished sketches, produced by and for BIP2012.
"Still images are designed like paintings, like scenes depicted in painting, in a bucolic mind-set, tender, sweet, gentle, fun - and post-ironic. The protagonists barely move, so as to not disfigure the composition, captured almost motionless, except for their occasional modest movements. For it is not really their actions that interest the writers of these films, it is their feelings that are evoked without cynicism and without pathos, in spite of the somewhat deceptive character of the conclusions. The subject of these films is the love between the protagonists, love in day-to-day life, to rephrase the title, conjured up almost as if it were in an allegorical poem. The films do not provide solutions; they only suggest ideas for reflection, without imposition and without explanation, on the theme of the existential problems these films evoke. The viewer remains free and is invited to make his own interpretation. "
(Marécaille Hubert, Michelle Naismith)
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