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The award winning Plot Point (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in S tardust and films real Hollywood stars – Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and turns the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling ca...
Apr 11, 2014 · Filmmaker Nicolas Provost in person for Q&A!In three short videos created over six years, Provost films iconic public spaces with a hidden camera, weaving the footage into dramatic arcs using narrative editing devices and drawing the cinematic out of the everyday.
Subverting dramaturgical conventions in his Plot Point trilogy, Provost presents the man in the street as a film protagonist. After New York (Plot Point) and Las Vegas (Stardust) he takes his hidden camera to the hyperkinetic streets of Tokyo in search for the mystery of reality.
His critically acclaimed first feature film ‘The Invader’ had it’s world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011. He recently completed the ‘Plot Point’ trilogy, three fiction thriller films featuring unsuspecting people from real life that he filmed with a hidden camera in New York, Las Vegas and Tokyo.
In Plot Point – the title playfully suggests a plot or a point that’s never really there – New York City and American copland, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances and crowded streets, turns into perfect filmic scenery for a nation in fear.
Dec 17, 2010 · In his current exhibition at Haunch of Venison Provost shows the second in this trilogy, Stardust, a film that takes Las Vegas as its backdrop and actually stars Jon Voigt and Jack Nicholson among the city's residents.
After the critically acclaimed success of his first feature film The Invader, Nicolas Provost (1969) presents the fresh Plot Point Trilogy at Argos. Provost’s work reflects on the grammatics of cinema, the human condition in our collective film memory and the relationship between visual art and the cinematic experience.
