Gilles Balmet

Rushes

2004

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

RUSHES

VIDEO INSTALLATION / MULTI SCREEN PROJECTION OR MONITORS / 2004

Rushes is a video installation proposing to experiment the deconstruction of a
potential film in several shots. The videos are shown on several screens with no
concern for link or coherence and compose a collection of sequences shot on a
fourteenth of July in the evening. They are shot from the windows of an apartment and show the private activities of the neighbors. Their banal actions
take place during the sequences, as if they were made for a film, waiting to be
edited and to be justified by a scenario.The people who become elements of a set seem to function as cut shots announcing a development. They weave a new link between one another that is conditioned by the viewer’s personal look at the work, waving from one sequence to another. The soundtrack of fireworks in the first sequence accompanies the whole installation.

 

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