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Synopsis Fictitious portrait of the Flemish artist Jan Fabre, based on his diary and his performances. The film?a modern fairy tale?projects Jan Fabre into his own imaginative universe and composes a character who changes ceaselessly identity, plays numerous roles under the most varied disguises; behind a mask, still another mask? The female character, like a ?demon of passage? using different faces, haunts the male character and inspires his metamorphoses, ad infinitum. The concepts of the work are repetition, simulacrum and metamorphosis, in essential relation as much with Jan Fabre`s oeuvre as with my own. Metamorphosis means the transition from one form to another, from one intensive state to another, from one identity to another, or from one universe to another. The work as `transposition` ?the ?performance` form turns into a cinema form? new creation. ?Existence simulates, it dissimulates, and it dissimulates that, even when dissimulating and playing a role, it continues to be authentic existence, thus binding the simulacrum to genuine authenticity with an almost inextricable malice.? Maurice Blanchot.

Film-maker and visual artist. Lives in Paris. Pierre Coulibeuf develops a cross-disciplinary project: he makes experimental fictions that skilfully invest the sphere of art and in which changes of identity affect the universes and artists inspiring his works. His films are shown in cinemas as well as, recomposed, in the form of installations (video-photo) in museums. Coulibeuf?s works are part of main public collections. The main concepts of his works are doubling, simulacrum, metamorphosis, labyrinth, reality as fiction or mental projection. Coulibeuf has had solo exhibitions all over the world: in Germany, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2006); in Portugal, Museu Colecçào Berardo, Lisbonne (2010); in France, Musée d?Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne (2009); Musée d?Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand (2013); in Brazil: Iberê Camargo Foundation (2009); in Russia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm (2011); in China : MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu (2012) ; Yuan Space, Beijing (2013), and group exhibitions: in Brazil, 5th Mercosur Visual Arts Biennial (2005); in Russia: 1st Ural Contemporary Art Biennial (2010); in Germany, Haus der Kunst (2012)? In 2013, Coulibeuf has been nominated for the AAC China Award (Most influential foreign Artist in China, with Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Araki, Shirin Neshat).