Directing
An abstract white space. An elderly woman, naked, wrapped in transparent plastic. A shoot for a video installation. The filmmaker talks to her, gives her instructions, observes her reactions. Unknowingly, he is filming a metaphor: that of her imminent death. Many years later, he reenacts the shoot, aided by two professional lip-readers who decipher the comments made by the woman during the filming. Slowly, an intimate dialogue emerges as her memories transcend the superimposed layers of staging.
Faux fluides is a eclectic story of the quest for one's identity. Through a collage of texts by Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett, this video cynically pursues and dismantles the Freudian theory of self. "There is a reserve of fluids somewhere in me which releases false liquids, believing to have modelled for me an eternal, internal body. It is, however, non-fluid beings who have assembled them, in order to dip into them."
Through vocal play and performance, this work by Alain Pelletier explores the concept of Asexual reproduction.
Old Faust agonizes, prisoner of an insomniac and cynical process. The imperceptible becoming of Marguerite, her silent and liquid pleasure, liberates him and throws him into the space of a strange and ridiculous desiring machine, in which he finds his final pleasure. In this video it is the spectator who, by the intense layering of audio, visual and poetical textures, travels through Medusa's inextricable mane.
"8 minutes and 50 seconds. We have released 375,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Trees have produced 171,000 tons of oxygen." This travelling-film exposes the state of the world through a real-time chronology of planetary processes. World Trade Opera is a multilingual work in which the artist explores the expressive possibilities of digital tools in order to create a visual and sound incantation. It stretches from global perspectives to micro-perceptions, from the communication of meaning to impenetrable saturation.