VALPARAISO / BIRIMBAU

COLLECTION

of PRADO Patrick

FRANCE, 1983, 00:22:00

Production : MINISTERE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES
Genre : Video art, Travel Diary
Keyword : Memory, Portrait, Tradition

Summary :
A young melancholic couple lead the Frenchman through the maze and the heights of a mythical city, through the hazardous and fragile places of their life.
Against a wall a young man is still playing a prehistoric one-string instrument; the Birimbau.

Shot with the lightest tools by artists sent or invited by France in Latin America, in the Baltic states or in Paris during the video-art festivals organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those travel diaries were totally free as to form and content in order to leave full play to the feeling of strangeness and the uncertainties of encounters. They benefit from a sophisticated post-production. The result is a strange rhapsody of glances stretching over more than ten years. The collection "Journaux de Voyages" was conceived of and directed by Pascal-Emmanuel GALLET. It is divided into : French diaries in Latin America, Latin American diaries in France, French diaries in Latvia and Balt diaries in France.

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