A very long exposure time
Digital video, 7 minutes, English language (a French version also exists), 2020
The film develops Chloé Galibert-Laîné’s ongoing fascination with images – how we see them, what they reveal, what they leave out, what can we use them for. Simple, stimulating, sublime.
Ariel Avissar (Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University)
A poetic reflection on the history and meaning of photographic recording of urban life and natural lakes throughout a century. Intimate thoughts of life, death, ecology and memory are a voice-over a static minimalist landscape of stripes of photo & video recordings, covered with water droplets.
Barbara Borčič, Ivana Kronja et Koyo Yamashita (International Competition Jury at the Alternative Film/Video Festival 2020)
Thought-provoking poetic study of the relationship between successive image recording technologies and what they capture and omit.
Michael Witt (Professor at the University of Roehampton, London)
Synopsis:
Inventing a poetic path through images created with Louis Daguerre's centuries-old photographic device, 16mm film cameras, pixelated video games consoles, early smarphones and contemporary computer interfaces, the work asks: what aspects of reality have these different technologies been designed to document? What phenomenon, either too slow or too fast to be recorded, have escaped their capture? Are there still dimensions of our experience on Earth that have never been visually documented, and for which photographic techologies are yet to be invented ?
An investigation of the explicit and unspoken ideologies encapsulated in technology, the video unfolds as a web of apparently unrelated stories, progressively revealing patterns of technologically-determined political erasure.
SCreenings :
Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival 2021 (Canada)
Shortfilmfestival Cologne 2021 (Germany)
Girona Film Festival 2021 (Spain)
Workshop “Deine Kamera ist eine App” at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
transmediale 2021 (Germany)
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival 2021 (Russia)
D-NORMAL / V-ESSAY 2021 (China) - “Best Work” Award
Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival 2021 (USA)
WRO Media Art Biennale 2021 (Poland)
Experiments in Cinema 2021 (United States)
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen 2021 (Netherlands)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2021 (Germany) - e-flux Prize & Online Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia
Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas 2021 (France)
Yerevan Biennial 2020 (Armenia)
Alternative Film/Video Festival 2020 (Serbia) - “Significant Award” from the International Competition jury
XVI Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground 2020 (Argentina)
Exhibition organized by the Universidad di Tella 2020 (Argentina)
