In 312 Online:
October 1– 31, 2006 / Olivier Ruellet, “RUA Jean Zay C99-02”

“RUA Jean Zay is the acronym of “Résidence Universitaire d´Antony Jean Zay”. This campus, built in 1955, originally hosted 1580 single rooms and 490 apartments for couples, representing 25% of the social student accommodation available in the Parisian region.

… RUA Jean Zay C99-02 is a dreamlike film about memories of distant or bygone places–or gradually fading out–about memory of architectural space and the imaginary drawn from it. It is both a commemorative film (haunted by the history of the Jean Zay campus and the collective memory of that place) and introspective (driven by my experience and my personal memory of that place).” – Olivier Ruellet.

Oliver Ruellet was born in France, but lives and works in London, UK. After studying industrial design at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, he left France for the University of Central England in Birmingham, UK, where he undertook a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication and shifted towards animation, new media and digital arts. His work explores eclectic domains (memory, places, travel, image-sound relations) through different supports and disciplines (film, interactive installations, net art). He is currently a research student and leads animation and multi-media workshops in the Faculty of the Arts, at Thames Valley University, London.