Damien Serban

Active since : 2003
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Damien Serban is a digital artist and musician.

He enjoys "digitally torturing" his works, creating strange worlds where ink rubs shoulders with pixels, where matter seems to become alive in an autonomous way.

He gravitates around dance, whether in his short films or during live performances, creating digital scenographies.

His films were programmed in numerous international festivals, and his works shown notably at the "Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille" and at the "Gaîté Lyrique", in Paris.

Damien Serban is a digital artist and musician. He gravitates around dance, and more specifically the Japanese butoh dance. His first experimental short film, Chrysalide (2005) is a hybrid between 3D animation which destroys pixels and features real video shots of a dancer. Then, in 2008, he directs the dancer Atsushi Takenouchi in Silken (grants by Arte, CNC and Arcadi – Special Jury Prize at the Festival Prisdecourts, Paris). This dreamlike film shows the feelings of an adult man who never came out of his mother's womb.

In 2013, he worked twice for live shows, creating images that react in real-time with the movements of the dancers, their skin becoming part of an augmented projection screen. (Sens Fiction then Introscope, performed at TedX Paris).

His works are shown notably at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, the Cinémathèque Française; and his films are programmed in numerous international festivals, including the Semana Experimental de Madrid, where Asomnie (2009) wins a Special Mention for the Jury.

He collaborated with sculptor Michel Lauricella, creating bas-reliefs augmented with video (Oiseaux, 2015 and Flore, 2016). These works that attempt to muddle the limits between moving image and real matter are exhibited at the Fabrica 114 and Fondation Taylor, in Paris.

Enriched by this multidisciplinary approach, he is now part of the project Sobre Sordos, hybrid song-writing, in which he explores the possibilities of creating a visual universe in dialogue with the music, through videos projected and manipulated live and music videos. Here again he is mixing multiple techniques (video, 3D, monoprints...) to create a hybrid organism, dense and electrified, concrete and fantasized...

He is now working on an abstract series of videos "in collaboration" with AI, the first one "CRISIS 1" having received the Young Jury Prize at the International Film Festival of Nancy, France.

Contact
https://www.damienserban.com
Sète (34200), France
I speak French, English, Spanish, Romanian
Update : 15/05/2024

Artworks

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Chrysalis
2005 - Distribution : Autour de Minuit

An intimate and personal vision of butoh dance, Chrysalide mixes 3D, VFX and video by playing on the contrast of this carnal and visceral dance with the rigor of 3D and its polygonal architectures. Inbetween organic and difital textures.

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Silken
2008 - Prod : Autour de Minuit - Co-prod : Arcadi - Soutien : CNC, ARTE France, Procirep, Angoa-Agicoa

Inside the protective warmth of his mother's womb, a man experiences everyday life as a eternal bliss.

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Il Dono della Sintesi
2019 - Sobre Sordos - Biombos

Il Dono della Sintesi, Il Dono della Sintesi, Il Dono della Sintesi, Il Dono della Sintesi...

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Programming
Ecran Total Sète (France), 2022
Ecran Total Sète (France), 2022
Festival Tous Courts Aix-en-Provence (France), 2022
La Fabrica 114 - Exposition collective Paris (France), 2022
La Fabrica 114 - Exposition collective Paris (France), 2022
Traverse Vidéo Toulouse (France), 2022
Traverse Vidéo Toulouse (France), 2022
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