A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 1, 2013
Original Title:
M.O.V.I.E.
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 5
For history, one of the major events of 1975 will remain the end of the war in Vietnam. For cinema, experimental cinema and video art, the year 1975 was rich in major works by directors and artists whom I particularly admire: Andreï Tarkovski, Artavazd Péléchian, Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mékas, William Wegman and the visual artist Michel Journiac, inventor of body art, whose most famous performance is a mass during which sausage made with his own blood was used to receive communion instead of bread. The idea of bringing together these works from 1975 and bringing them together naturally came to me for this project. Nesting images of these works with the intuition of finding or creating by the magic of editing, links and secret passages between these works. I discovered that all these works had wonderful links between them.
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