Hi, I’m Olivier L. Brunet, aka Liv Brunet (as coach and podcast host), aka Liv
North (my musician moniker).
I was born in Rouen - France in 1960. After business school (Sup de Co Rouen
1983) and on-the-job training in the film industries (laboratories, post-production,
special effects), I started directing short films in the early 90’s, and co-founded the
Arane-Gulliver laboratory dedicated to large-format processing (70mm, Imax®) in
2000. Then I devoted myself entirely to directing, dividing my activities between
TV documentaries and spectacular museum video installations.
For 30 years, I have made a few fictions and some twenty documentaries, on
subjects as diverse as possible, having made it a vocation to be a specialist in
nothing.
Social subjects, philosophy, religion, history, immersions, archives or animation, I
touched on everything with a greed aroused by my curiosity and the interest or the
proposals of the producers who trusted me.
Thanks to the technical skills acquired during my years in technical industries and
large formats, I was also able to work for prestigious museum institutions on many
ambitious and spectacular video installations, and to affirm my taste for symmetry,
repetition, the harmony of movements and forms, the Golden Ratio. In this area
in particular, each project is a prototype, an opportunity to reinvent oneself that I
have never tired of.
I earn my living by making and arranging images, but music has always been my
existential fuel.
As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to do it and I haven’t stopped
listening to it. First the classical, and the chance to have a passionate and erudite
father who resonated in the house as much Mozart as Varèse and Stockhausen.
Then, in that order, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the hard rock of the early 70’s (Led
Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath), the progressive of Yes and Genesis,
swept away by the punks of 1977, new-wave (Cure , Joy Division, Wire) etc... up
to the ambient popularized by Brian Eno in 1976. And jazz. And the blues. And
afrobeat, reggae, disco, techno, rap... Everything.
All the instruments I tried to tame resisted me: violin, piano, guitar, drums, bass. I
fell back on singing, production, manipulation of magnetic tapes then the
extraordinary potential of DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) from the end of the
80s, which opened up the field of possibilities to me.
A spiritual seeker since the age of 5, I eventually came across the Principles and
Non-Duality teachings in 2018. Since them, I haven’t stopped deepening my
understanding, started a life coaching practice in early 2022, and a podcast in july
of the same year.