La Reprise (Dérive), 2020-ongoing

This is an exercise in continuity and distortion. This experimental film began on June 20, 2020.
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Every week, a subsequent minute is produced by combining scenes shot that week with archival material from the past years. Footage and sound are consistently recorded with the same single device (an iPhone). Every week, this 1 min film is uploaded on Vimeo. The film may distort, but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is what was recorded. The sequences are neither true nor false, they integrate various degrees of theatricality and authenticity. They become portraits of an agitated immersion in the perpetual process of being, of this unpredictable yet systematic gathering and indexing. They are the record of close observations. I am a passenger, a witness to recurrences and patterns. This continuous collage of archives is the tension. The narrative is disconnected from the sum of its parts and elaborates on successes and failures. In this regard, the film is in a constant state of being finished, rather than interminably in progress. While its length progressively evolves, it also always is its final duration. This work is meant to continue until my death.