The Boy who loves Numbers

Pierre-Jean Vazel is obsessed with numbers. Since he was born, they are for him a smell, a sound, a movement, a matter, a colour… like the vowels of Rimbaud had.

Very young, he has been compulsively recording with emotion all the athletics figures worldwide. Later on, on the Internet, he has been consulting the best sprint experts in the world and devouring tons of statistical documents… At the age of 24, this singular and lonely fine arts student, endowed with a phenomenal memory, coaches outside any institution a 20-year-old nigerian athlete. The year after, he becomes the sixth fastest man in the 100m History and world champion on 60m!

Selected at Pariscience 2010
See the showing : Friday 08th October 2010 from 20h00 to 21h30