LE GRAND O Nicola Andreani & Sarah Bouillaud
ABSTRACT Le Grand O is a graphic novel born from the collaboration between Sarah Bouillaud (photographer) and Nicola Andreani (screenwriter). The sandy forests of Fontainebleau and the ocean beaches of Charente-Maritime were chosen to recreate the lunar landscape of this dreamlike and surreal narrative. It took a few hundred photos and photomontages to tell this lyrical story that slowly reveals itself in the black and white of the images. This project is unique in its design and vision: photography dialogues with twentieth-century photonovels, expanding its technical and artistic possibilities thanks to photomontage and a narration through images held together by poetry which, expanding in the physical spaces of the photos, reverberates a human experience.
SYNOPSIS A distant war, a journey through the darkness of consciousness, through the labyrinths of his own ghosts and obsessions. Le Grand O is the story of a man losts in the landscape of his soul who doesn't want to surrender to bewilderment. Le Grand O is also the story of a man who has been given a second chance: by deciphering the message brought by the sea, he maybe can save himself. Le Grand O is an Orlando Furioso, a knight who has lost his consciousness and has set out in search of him. A man who will be able to walk the path that will lead him to a mature freedom. Probably, it s only by accepting himself disarmed in the great silence of the world, that revealed the true greatness of Le Grand O (The big O).
BIO Nicola Andreani (1984) is an illustrator and comic artist. He worked with comic artists as Manuele Fior, Alessandro Tota and Sualzo. In 2014 he published a book about graphic novel: Graphic Novel. Comic teaches to my father, NPE, 2014 and in the same period he got his PhD in Comics at La Sorbonne University in Paris (France). Since 2013 he teaches Comics in Italy and in France and since 2020 he's a member of the Executive Committee of Biblioteca delle Nuvole, comics library of Perugia. Sarah Bouillaud (1985) got her bachelor's degree in photography at Icart Photo School in Paris in 2007. Currently she works as a photographer and illustrator for the French press (Le Monde, Libération, Les Echos, La Croix, Management ..). In her personal projects, she builds a creative universe between reality and fiction. Her works are visible on her website : www.sarabou.fr
CONTACT Nicola Andreani +33 (0)7 68 39 07 21 nicolandreani@gmail.com www.nicolaandreani.com