Sébastien Cros

Sébastien Cros, cinéaste et expérimentateur sonore, pratique la performance sous différents supports images et sons; super 8, 16mm, vidéo, platines, logiciel... Il collabore régulièrement avec Carole Arcega, cinéaste plasticienne qui a été présidente de L’Etna de 2000 à 2003, association pour laquelle ils mettent tous les deux en place divers ateliers de formations (développement, intervention sur pellicule, prise de vue 16mm...).
En octobre 2004, Sébastien Cros et Carole Arcega fondent l’association Label Ombres, pour la création, l’édition et la diffusion d’expériences cinématographiques fragiles. Le cinéma est un art plastique, un art vivant, une expérience. C’est dans cette perspective que l’association affirme la démarche originale de ses cinéastes.
Tabula Rasa fait partie de la collection Blacklight, un programme de films expérimentaux et de performances. Label Ombres développe aussi de nouvelles orientations. A travers une approche plastique du documentaire, Carole Arcega propose de mettre en image ses rencontres avec des artistes, dont les œuvres frôlent sa vision du cinéma. De son côté, Sébastien Cros met en place un projet de laboratoire experimental et artisanal dans les Balkans. Projet en phase d'elaboration : des liens a tisser entres differentes structures, de Mostar a Belgrade, en passant par Sarajevo.

Cinematographer, photographer and sound designer, Sébastien Cros explores the cinematographic form of the performance using 16mm, Super 8 as well as video, turntable and several softwares.
It carries out several multi-screens films and actions for several projectors (Nocte, 2003 ; Tabula Rasa, 2005) which explore widened shapes of the cinema ( mixing of filmic textures, scrapings of the emulsion of film carried out on line, with electronic engineering of the treatment of sound, samples)
More than simple linear film show, he proposes to the spectators to discover a renewed perception of the image and sounds.
In 2004, Sébastien Cros along with his co-performer Carole Arcega, established the association Label Ombres, in order to continue this new cinematographic concept by creation, edotion and diffusion of such rare filmic moments.
The cinema is living art as well as plastic art. It is in this perspective that the association testify its existence and the support thus offered to the artists, however keeping on developping new orientations.

Since 2005, Sébastien Cros works on the creation of Zora Lab, a cinematographic laboratory based in Sarajevo.
The concept of functioning of this organization is a laboratory which purpose is to form an embryonic nucleus of energy that can communicate out of the limited area, meaning to gather the creative pulses that search for contact between innumerous existing, though unexpressed, potentials: in order to create connecting channels which have to establish the sphere structure of the society in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Earth in general.