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.
Extract