CAN 2025, col&bw, 5:22 min
music: Roger Tellier-Craig, commissioned by: Hors Champ, Cadavre Exquis
Délire atta takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization.
Michaela Grill’s approach seeks to liberate images from their historical patina, stripping away nostalgia to reveal their raw visual potential. By emphasizing textures, forms, and movement, she allows the material itself to dictate the composition. The red tint of the original print of La biologie des atta, for example, became a key visual element—embraced rather than corrected—intensifying the film’s physical presence and expressive power.
Roger Tellier-Craig worked exclusively with audio sourced from four of these films, selecting material rich in timbre and texture. This material was then stretched, granulated, and reshaped into new sonic fragments that still echo their original source—not as direct references, but as an expansion of the infinite possibilities within media often considered finite.
Together, image and sound engage in a dialogue of texture and transformation, revealing unexpected resonances within the archive and generating new possibilities from what might otherwise be seen as fixed or obsolete. (RTC)
𝘿𝙚́𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖 utilise des séquences trouvées et des sons provenant de six films d’archives et les transforme par un processus d’abstraction et de recontextualisation. L’artiste Michaela Grill libère ainsi les images de leur nostalgie, en misant sur les textures, les formes et le mouvement, accompagnée par son complice Roger Tellier-Craig travaille le son comme un matériau brut : il l’étire, le fragmente et le métamorphose pour en faire émerger de nouvelles résonances. Un dialogue visuel et sonore fascinant qui redonne souffle aux archives. (André Habib)
𝘿𝙚́𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖 uses found footage and sounds from six archive films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Artist Michaea Grill frees images from their nostalgia, focusing on textures, shapes, and movement. Accompanied by her collaborator Roger Tellier-Craig, who works with sound like a raw material: stretching it, fragmenting it, and transforming it to bring out new resonances. A fascinating visual and sonic dialogue that breathes new life into the archives. (André Habib)
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