SIMON ROUBY

2012-02-10T14:02:00.000Z

Los A

2012-02-09T19:04:00.000Z

Ring

2012-02-09T11:30:00.000Z

A silver ring made with the 3D printing technique for Gabriel Calvillo. Estrambotico.

STCKHLM

2012-02-05T15:22:00.000Z

Test

2012-02-01T14:42:00.000Z

2012-01-20T13:31:00.001Z

Yellow Line Project

2012-01-20T13:30:00.000Z

"Sunshine, a light which, for want of a better word I can only call yellow — pale sulphur yellow, pale lemon, gold. How beautiful yellow is! "

Vincent Van gogh

Letters to his brither Theo (1872-1890), Arles, August 1888

“Nobody walks in L.A.” This is what I was ironically told when arriving at California Institute of the Arts in 2008. As a foreigner without a car, I had to walk anyways, trying to understand the city of Los Angeles from its limits in Valencia. Every day I crossed a bridge over Highway 5 and each time I stopped to watch the passing cars and trucks.

The bright yellow line painted on the concrete of the road fascinated me: its color and its brightness were a sample of the California sun, a piece of the Golden state.

This yellow line made me discover the city: it brought me to the California Transportation Striping Crew. I followed them while they poured miles of yellow paint onto the concrete of Los Angeles.

With “The Stripers” I got to know the biggest and most congested network of freeways and highways in the United States. White lines, lane lines, elephant tracks, yellow, double yellow, double yellow and black…

Thanks to them, I built my understanding of Los Angeles, a gigantic city where people meet everyday, but at 60 miles per hour on the freeways. Millions of cars per day, from which 75% drive alone. Most people in L.A. drive despite traffic and smog because of a lack of alternative ways of getting around.

In this setup, The Stripers, being the warrants of the security of the traveling public, maintain the functioning of the whole city of Los Angeles. I shadowed the Striping Crew over the years, and gathered collateral materials of their paintings: canvases used to empty the totes and clean spray guns, miles of lines captured on tape, repeated gestures of an endless task, very similar to that of a painter.

With this material, I made a documentary film and multi-channel video installation to show Los Angeles from a new angle and give the audience a different reading of their own environment.

I want the work to bring consciousness on the conventions for dividing forbidden spaces in our daily life, and of our own acceptance of these rules.

My goal is also to trigger new thoughts about ways of moving around in L.A. in the future. Despite all of California’s environmental efforts, the need for massive transportation is an increasingly important issue.

Showing this work redefines these debates as a playful reflection on Art, framing the simultaneously mundane, beautiful, and epic nature of the yellow linear labor in a new way.

Simon Rouby

Download Yellow Line PDF (English Version)

So far, the project was exhibited twice in Paris. Here is a short video of the installation at Hospice saint Charles, June 2011.

Direct by Sonick

2012-01-19T21:47:00.000Z

Allons bon

2012-01-19T21:06:00.000Z

Blind Spot

2012-01-19T15:34:00.000Z

Gobelins, l’Ecole de l’Image, Paris, 2007

Co-Directors: Johanna Bessière, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cécile Dubois-Herry, Yvon Jardel, Simon Rouby

Award-winning of "La Bourse Lagardere", E Magiciens 2007 Festival for Student Film.

Also Selected in:
• "Official Selection Cinefondation" Cannes Festival 2008
• "Best Student Piece Award" SIGGRAPH 2008
• "School" FICCI Baf 2008
• "Student Competition" ANIMAFEST Zagreb 2008
• "Student Competition" Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2008
• Best Student Film Anima Mundi 2008
• Official Selection Imagina 2008
• Official Selection Ottawa 2008
• Official Selection Art Futura 2007

LINKS

2012-01-19T14:46:00.000Z

silures.org/
teurk.net/
michellauricella.com/
carlkrull.dk/

Bio

2012-01-19T13:34:00.000Z

Simon Rouby, né en 1980, a fait ses classes une bombe de peinture à la main avant d’acceder à d’autres mediums comme la sculpture et la peinture. Il a étudié la réalisation de films, d’abord à Paris aux Gobelins, puis à Calarts, Los Angeles. Ses deux films de fin d’études, Blind spot et Le Présage, ont été sélectionnés dans de nombreux festivals internationaux dont Cannes, Clermont, San Diego, Bucarest, Ottawa, Taiwan...

Sans attache géographique, il développe depuis une recherche sur l'image en mouvement et ses possibilités narratives, considérant la projection cinématographique traditionelle comme un cas particulier de l'installation. Son dernier film en date, La Marche, a été produit en 2010 par Naïa Productions, avec qui il développe actuellement un long métrage d'animation.

Simon Rouby, born in 1980 in Lyon, France, took his first artistic steps as a graffiti artist 10 years ago. He then accessed other mediums such as painting and sculpture. From this background he studied film directing, first in Gobelins, Paris then in CalArts, Los Angeles. His two graduation films, Blind Spot, and Le Présage have been shown in many international festivals: Cannes, Clermont, San Diego, Bucarest, Ottawa, Taiwan…

Without geographical boundaries, he develops since then a research in moving images and their narrative potential, considering the cinematographic traditional projection scheme as a specific case of Installation art. His last short film, La Marche, was produced by Naïa Productions in 2010, with whom he currently develops an animated feature film.

2012-01-18T00:25:00.004Z

Throwing rocks on a hundred windows on a row, trying to see trough, looking for someone.

Shot by Gonzalo H. Rodriguez & Simon Rouby.
16mm film processed & altered by Gonzalo H. Rodriguez
Edited by: Simon Rouby.
Music by Emilie Quinquis

2012-01-16T21:45:00.001Z

From footage of "Julien Donkey Boy" by Harmony Korine.
No Soundtrack.

Yellow Line @ Moretti

2012-01-15T15:37:00.003Z

STRIPERS

2011-10-29T02:08:00.000+01:00

Teaser for STRIPERS documentary film,

Part of the 'Yellow Line project'

yellowlineproject.blogspot.com/

ACRETION / CREATION / REACTION

2011-09-18T11:36:00.001+01:00

Accretion is the growth of a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter in an accretion disc. Accretion discs are common around smaller stars or black holes in the centers of spiral galaxies. Some dynamics in the disc are necessary to allow orbiting gas to lose angular momentum and fall onto the central massive object. Occasionally, this can result in stellar surface fusion.

ACRETION is a collaborative work started by Teurk & Simon Rouby.

Yellow Line Project

2011-09-07T16:11:00.001+01:00

Greetings, I created another site to present my current project:

yellowlineproject.blogspot.com/

Gerlach,NV

2011-09-03T18:15:00.002+01:00

Vidéo Installation @ 51, Cinémathèque Française, December 2009. Dancer: Mai Ishiwata

Antirust

2011-03-30T22:49:00.000+01:00

From a screenprint for the Antirust #2 Fanzine.

Mame Cheikh

2011-01-08T20:08:00.004Z

Ibrahima Fall

The Radiant Child

2010-11-03T18:58:00.003Z

Basquiat

Frères Lumiere

2010-11-02T14:31:00.003Z

La Marche

2010-07-03T00:59:00.013+01:00

"La Marche"

Written by Simon Rouby & Séverine Lathuillière
Directed by Simon Rouby
Animation: Christophe Pinto, Simon Rouby, SPÉ
Ferrofluids: ACCRETION (vimeo.com/28936077)
Music by Pablo Pico
3D Modeling, Animation, Render: Thierry Marchand
Live Shots: Thomas Hardouin

Storyboard done with SPÉ.
(see the original drawing there: http://www.direct420.com/La_MarcheSTB.jpg)

Produced by www.naia.pro

www.simonrouby.com

festivals & distribution: contact@naia.pro

"D’où venons-nous, où allons-nous. C’est la question que se posent
Simon Rouby et Séverine Lathuillière dans "La Marche". L’histoire de
l’humanité est une longue marche. Vers le progrès, mais aussi, peut
être, vers la destruction.
Produit par Naïa, le court-métrage mêle animation traditionnelle 2D,
dessins à l’encre, 3D et morphing audacieux. Un homme marche, à priori
sans but. Au dessus de lui défilent, à vitesse grand V, des images.
Big bang, dinosaures, primates, homme préhistorique, homme moderne.
L’homme, sorte de "conscience" du monde, se souvient de l’histoire de
l’évolution. Et la fin n’est pas belle à voir."
(Marche et crève par Fabien Soyez, ecrans.fr)

Selections & Screenings:
-National animated film festival in Bruze, France. Official Selection

-Tindiridis 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania. Official Selection

-Part of Vimeo staff Picks

-Streetlab, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam.
-Vimeo staff Picks.
-Stash magazine #75
-23èmes instants numériques
-Festival Très Courts Forum des Halles

-31ème Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne

-Festival Scope

D300

2010-02-20T19:52:00.003Z

D300 from Simon Rouby on Vimeo.

From "There is blood on the wall" Group show in California Institute of the arts.

Los Angeles. October 2009.

Installation, Wood, Plexiglass, Black glass, White Tape, Ink on paper & looped video projection.

Ferrofluid

2010-02-04T22:18:00.005Z

Recent works from mad nights in the studios of La Kommune, Belleville

Ferrofluid 1.2

Manipulation TEURK & DIRECT420
Editing Thomas Hardouin
Music Kyle Blanton Ross

Ferrofluid 2.1

Une manipulation de TEURK & DIRECT420
Montage de Thomas Hardouin
Musique de Benoit favière
Shot by P.E

The videos can also be checked in high res & full screen on vimeo

vimeo.com/ferrofluid

Stepney

2010-01-29T18:36:00.004Z

We had all seen the day rising,

but nobody had noticed.

Even the heavy rain seemed not to be there,

though everybody was wet.

And it was cold too, but everybody was

sweating,

and smoking,

and talking.

A morning,

on the rooftop of some squat in Aldgate station.

The first buildings of Stepney Green where in sight with their sadness

and their destroyed windows.

And our madness,

and their Indian food smell.

The sky was grey.
And we were alive.

"Gerlach,NV" Lundi 14 decembre 19h au 51, Cinematheque française

2009-12-07T11:53:00.010Z

Goodwill

2009-11-09T03:25:00.002Z

Portrait of filmmaker and photographer Lennart Selle in Los Angeles.

Chat Perché

2009-10-25T01:02:00.006+01:00

L.A river

2009-10-24T00:09:00.007+01:00

Went painting on the LA river thanks to my man Javier.
97 cents black cans. Helicopters flying over us. Besides that, everything chill.
Bless on to the man Cheeks.

...and yes I have been traumatised by blu's Muto film....can't help it.

La jetée

2009-06-19T14:19:00.011+01:00

Souvenir du lac d'annecy. Un pont/tapis roulant qui s'arrete et ne traverse pas. Le soleil est en face, et on a pas traversé a la nage.

Inity

2009-06-08T17:46:00.003+01:00

La Kommune

2009-05-15T15:26:00.002+01:00

menilmontant

2009-04-28T17:35:00.003+01:00

...the process is always more interesting than the final product. Silly isn't it?

Kyle...

2009-04-01T16:50:00.004+01:00

...in the dining room of Greenstreet Mayfair.
Recently Kyle has been the center of multiple works of arts, I am affraid he is turning narcissistic.

Louis

2009-03-24T15:57:00.004Z

Fame Game

2009-03-14T19:57:00.004Z

Graffiti game is about fame, I just want you to know my name.

From the archives of 2004, Characters from Vaughn Bode.
Made with Den, Spe, Duke, Ozey, Swan.

The Whale

2009-02-16T00:15:00.003Z

A styrofoam whale sculped with a chainsaw. Pure violence

Basement

2009-02-02T17:47:00.001Z

Kyle making music in the basement of the green mansion.

104

2009-01-12T23:11:00.003Z

Nick and gonzalo working in 104 last week.

another today from Simon Rouby on Vimeo.

Quand je serai grand je serai peintre

2008-12-25T09:03:00.007Z

Ah bin merde je suis grand déjà....Faut que j'm y mette....On sait jamais d'min j'pourrais clamser....(mala malekal)

william danton

2008-09-30T19:16:00.003+01:00

Cette image a refait surface récemment, suite a un déménagement...

spé, kris...

2008-08-15T01:10:00.002+01:00

Mes muses du moment...

Fatimata

2008-07-26T15:17:00.002+01:00

....

2008-06-21T11:34:00.009+01:00

Romane

2008-05-08T12:39:00.001+01:00

Kyle

2008-04-16T15:11:00.003+01:00

Kyle keeps on saying good bye but doesn't leave. Is that's because he loves us?

Le Présage (The Omen)

2008-04-05T21:35:00.015+01:00

"But I saw it and it was a crow," I insisted.
"You saw nothing, you fool," (...)
"What you saw was not an agreement from the world," he said.
"Crows flying or cawing are never an agreement. That was an omen!"
"An omen of what?"
"A very important indication about you..."

Carlos Castaneda

"Journey to Itxlan, The teachings of Don Juan"

Thomas a la Forge

2008-03-27T17:45:00.012Z

Acrylique sur toile, 200cm/120cm

Africa

2008-03-20T21:46:00.011Z

Salam, ca fait longtemps que je voulais scanner ces images et les partager ici. Je remet le nez dedans avec nostalgie en rapport a mes travaux actuels. Faits au Senegal en 2005, pendant un stage au studio d'animation Pictoon a Dakar.
Salam. It 's been a long time now since I wanted to scan that and share it here. Done in Senegal in 2005, during my Internship in Pictoon animaton Studio.

The Foundry

2008-03-12T01:21:00.002Z

Merci la famille, d'avoir enduré les continuelles allées et venues pour participer a la fête. Ça l'a bien fait. A refaire en plus grand et avec des couleurs....
C'était une oeuvre très interactive, au point que certains innocents ont du rentrer avec des traînées d'encre sur les manches. Je pense que d'ici deux semaines, faudra refaire des photos du mur avec les rajouts eventuels de la faune locale.Merci a tout ceux qui sont venus!
Thanks to everybody, it was a good night, we painted on the wall, as well as on some innocent people...Really interactive.Thanks a lot! If you're around old street, you should have a look and finish this wall, it's still up for two weeks or so.

London

2008-03-11T13:54:00.008Z

Silverlake

2008-03-10T23:32:00.009Z

Angel

2008-02-14T22:26:00.002Z

Popay

2008-01-24T19:09:00.001Z

popay at the work a st henri, si vous connaissez pas bin c'est pas trop tard:
http://popay.free.fr/

Gare de Lyon

2008-01-06T16:59:00.001Z

J'ai raté mon train alors en attendant le suivant, je m'achete des figolu et un yop fraise et je dessine la Gare, assis par terre.
Le passant hésite a me donner une piece.

Moleskine

2008-01-05T20:32:00.000Z

Calais

2008-01-02T17:42:00.001Z

Eurostar ou l'exode Francais, bloques sur les voies...

Calarts cubes

2007-12-05T21:31:00.001Z

2007-11-27T18:28:00.000Z

Ca devait etre imprime dans un fanzine clandestin, mais ca n'a jamais eu lieu.
Fait a deux avec un certain Insay.

Lazy sunday

2007-11-12T19:36:00.001Z

Skaters

2007-11-05T19:50:00.001Z

Le Chemin d'Adama

2007-10-02T23:12:00.001+01:00

Quelques extraits d'une (petite) serie de recherches d'après un scenario de Julien Lilti
On espere avoir le temps d'en faire d'autres...

Auto

2007-10-01T23:02:00.000+01:00

Des fois on a envie de peindre et on a ni peinture ni modele, juste un ordi et un miroir.
Sometimes you want to paint but you have no paint and no one to paint, just a computer and a mirror.

summer sketches

2007-09-14T17:43:00.001+01:00

Edmond Baudoin

2007-06-19T19:14:00.001+01:00

J'ai eu la chance d'assister a une leçon de dessin d' Edmond Baudoin aux Ateliers de Sevres.
Merci Antony.

shamanes

2007-04-27T22:05:00.000+01:00

give love get love

2007-04-23T20:55:00.000+01:00

...And in bonus a photoshop bug

Le Présage

2007-04-18T18:49:00.000+01:00

Some random color layer from "Le Présage".

nuyork

2007-04-02T06:54:00.000+01:00

De retour de la ville qui ne dort jamais....un peu de tout ici dans ces photos d'art, dans l'ordre Manhatan, Brooklyn, Harlem, Jamaica et queens...yo lenz kiffez bien!

pigman

2007-03-17T07:56:00.000Z

sans titre

2007-03-09T08:26:00.000Z

Ce film date de septembre 2005, initialement exercice flash réalisé en un mois a l'école des gobelins, il n'etait pas fini jusqu'a ce que je décide subitement et arbitrairement ce matin que si. Un an et demi plus tard...
En plus j'ai solicité des gens pour le faire et c'etait pas tres respectueux de ne pas aller au bout. Il y a pas de generique donc je le met la...

son: Gregory Vettraino
voix: Vincent Gaeta
séquences en prise de vue:
acteur:Franck Plaisant
cadre:Thomas Hardouin
réalisation: Simon Rouby_production time: 1 month flash exercise

2007-03-07T10:46:00.000Z

painting

2007-03-04T03:35:00.000Z

san francisco

2007-03-02T01:21:00.000Z

san francisco

2007-02-28T09:07:00.000Z

Carnets

2007-02-24T08:06:00.000Z

Une aquarelle de varanasi et une de dakar qui se ressemblent beaucoup. J'ai fait la seconde en me rappelant la premiere, a deux ans d'ecart. On se refait pas.

running

2007-02-21T07:00:00.000Z

venice

2007-02-20T08:42:00.000Z

On en oublierai qu'il y a l'ocean ici. Tres alerte a malibu.

2007-02-16T07:10:00.000Z

Omen

2007-02-13T20:44:00.000Z

Premiere recherche pour le Présage

2007-02-05T03:37:00.000Z

ORUN-1mn shortfilm
production time: 1 month limited animation exercise for a children TV channel, the theme was "Heroes of tomorrow".

China town

2007-02-04T01:36:00.000Z

Peintures

2007-02-02T19:10:00.000Z

expatrié a L.A

2007-01-29T01:05:00.000Z