{"id":310,"date":"2017-03-16T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2017-03-16T21:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T21:10:18","slug":"the-reprover-le-reprobateur-by-francois-coulon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-reprover-le-reprobateur-by-francois-coulon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reprover (Le Reprobateur), by Francois Coulon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/reprover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-311\" src=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/reprover-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/reprover-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/reprover.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Reprover originally appeared in 2008, and I wrote a review of it for The Hyperliterature Exchange (<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperex.co.uk\/reviewreprobateur.php\">http:\/\/hyperex.co.uk\/reviewreprobateur.php<\/a>). It has now been rebuilt and made available free online for the first time &#8211; you can access it at <a href=\"https:\/\/ler\u00e9probateur.fr\/en\/\">https:\/\/ler\u00e9probateur.fr\/en\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth exploring. A non-linear story spanning several decades and told from several points of view, it&#8217;s a very unique, funny and ingeniously-constructed piece of new media magic realism, told in a mixture of text, video and illustration which quickly becomes completely absorbing and natural-seeming after you&#8217;ve clicked through a few sections.<\/p>\n<p>Also available online is a more recent work by Francois Coulon, <em>Prise Multiple <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/prisemultiple.fr\/\">https:\/\/prisemultiple.fr\/<\/a>), another witty, clever and beautifully-executed work, this time a series of videos, in which the same couples can be seen talking about their relationships in four different styles, depending on which button you click &#8211; net-video, reality-TV, fluffy romantic or pseudo-intellectual (the last is my favourite).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reprover originally appeared in 2008, and I wrote a review of it for The Hyperliterature Exchange (http:\/\/hyperex.co.uk\/reviewreprobateur.php). It has now been rebuilt and made available free online for the first time &#8211; you can access it at https:\/\/ler\u00e9probateur.fr\/en\/ . It&#8217;s well worth exploring. A non-linear story spanning several decades and told from several points &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-reprover-le-reprobateur-by-francois-coulon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Reprover (Le Reprobateur), by Francois Coulon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}