is part of this great program in Marseille at Videodrome 2 tomorrow, wish I could be there!
On the Road | Painting Road
Thursday 2 novembre 2023 | 20:00 – 21:00
Fuji de Robert Breer | 1973 | États-Unis | 8 min | 16mm
Just in Time de Kirsten Winter | 1999 | Allemagne | 9 min | 35mm
Chronographies de Jean-Michel Bouhours | 1982 | France | 17 min | 16mm
Carte noire de Michaela Grill | 2014 | Autriche | 2 min
Disquiet de SJ Ramir | 2011 | Nouvelle-Zélande | 2 min
Erosion 12 ; a walk de Collectif Los ingravidos | 2019 | Mexique | 8 min
Après le feu de Jacques Perconte | 2010 | France | 7 min
Some of these nomads are also visual artists. The landscapes crossed are transfigured by a pencil line or colored beaches. Robert Breer mischievously underlines Mount Fuji with a black line on the white snow, sometimes completely replacing the landscape with a similar drawing. The bus or train journey becomes a comic strip, a dream, a colorful painting like in Just in Time by Kirsten Winter. At the meeting of painting, photography and cinema, Jean Michel Bouhours juxtaposes and alternates forests, chalets, mountains in black and white and colorful beats. These interventions are made directly on the film stock.
Others, more focused on black and white photography, film strange worlds, lumpy expanses and deep, fascinating and disturbing nights. With Michaela Grill the landscapes sink into the black ink of erasure, with SJ. Ramir the shivers of the grains in suspension tend a veil of solid mist.
And there are the travelers who, searching the pixels of the digital image, evoke blurred, scattered landscapes, from serene spaces, in a process of deconstruction/reconstruction. The intervention takes place at the heart of the image, within its structure.
Los Ingravidos stretches, fragments, multiplies the figures of representation and Jacques Perconte twists them, metamorphoses them and creates gaps, empty spaces inside the filmed surface like holes in the landscape.
