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HEURE EXQUISE ! Presentation by Sandra Lischi |
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Archaeology and neology of the video The cameras which are
increasingly lighter and easier to handle allow an intimate, daily
and immediate use of the video, (not mediate, i.e. : not even a reflexion
on the language). Personal diaries, improvised interviews, recordings
of humourous life snippets, everyday life and confessions, all nowadays
fill many video festivals, bringing in a tendency which sometimes
at least has the merit of a certain freshness or intuition concerning
themes and interesting views, but which more often than not takes
on an anthropological, sociological or chronicle interest. This is
quite different from the production of works which last. Sometimes
it seems to to me that excessive place is given to this tendency,
and that these videos benefit from an exaggerated indulgency in criticism.
I also wonder about the massive return of performance (very well represented
in the catalogue, historically too), but emptied of its potential
for anti-institutional provocation of the style of the sixties and
seventies. The surreal has been transformed into grotesque when it
is not outright madness, and rare are the examples when intelligent
humour, finesse or a pertinant reflexion on the medium replace simplistic
or effect orientated jokes. |
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