GILLES BALMET

DEPLACEMENTS 2003 23'00''

Déplacements is a long sequence based on a travelling created using the window view from a train. The concept of the video is quasi pictorial because the construction of the travel shot is created by layers of recorded pictures taken of the different train stations during the stop of the train. In fact, a layer is added to the travelling video at each moments the train stops. It constitutes a complex picture composed by the travelling and all the layers from the different stops of the train. The travel is so a memory of the time passed in the stops of the train as if the landscapes had been printed on the retina of the passenger during the stop. The video has also a pictorial dimension and goes to the whitening of the landscapes by the superimposition of layers of snowed views as a metaphor of painting which could be created in the fusion of memories. The view is more and more complex and become illegible by the saturation of elements and visual information recorded.