Hypnothetic Blue

Video projection, waiting room

"Energy" Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2000.
Cultural Center "Bleu Pluriel", Trégueux, France, 2013.

Video and installation, sound, 6 mn. Waiting room with armchairs and magazines.
Video made from images recorded at night in the ports of Saint-Brieuc and Baltchik.

The reflections of port lights on the water produce undulating and captivating light shapes, accompanied by sound waves of slowed down and unidentifiable port noises.
The images come from two distant ports filmed with two different technologies: the images from Baltchik were recorded in analogic, those from the port of Saint-Brieiuc in digital. Their assembly does not cheat about the difference in rendering quality; thist produces images which seem alternately blur and precise, macro and microscopic, evoking both metallic balls with a jerky rhythm and a DNA helix in motion.

The absence of horizon and the dark background give the water a verticality reinforced by the cupboards which frame the projection. Closed, uniformly black and shiny, they lock up inaccessible memories. Their reflective surface extends the lights of the film, which thus emanates into the third dimension of the room.
The whole thing is hypnotic, and slowly provokes a modified state of attention: through immersion in this liquid and obscure infinity, a sensitble purge of the day's images takes place.

 

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