TROIS LECONS DE FRANCAIS A L'USAGE DES CANNIBALES

COLLECTION

of BOURGES Alain

FRANCE, 1992, 00:09:48

Production : GRAND CANAL, MEDIAS ET MEDIAS
Genre : Video art, Travel Diary
Keyword : Literature, Memory, Travel

Summary :
1. Chained Haute-Cordillière ; a woman's fragile and naked song ; a voice - it bumps sometimes, we think we recognize it - who talks about Mermoz's definite absence, criss-crossing, like watersheds mingling, shades of South-facing slopes, collapsing summits abolished under the airplane, of which only the gentle sound of the motor still remains.
2. Urban foliage at night, drowned in water; lights, like flowers. Marie dances. Marie works as a prostitutes until she wants to vomit, drunk with her lust for life.
3. "Always tell the truth... I always tell the truth…" Movie kisses, a thousand times the same, intense tenderness, a thousand times, a tender glance at the camera, a smile, a slightlt shiny eyelid… You cannot tell all the truth, the words are lacking…

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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