Trans (ep. 1)
An old man sits at a table reading a book. After the reading of extracts from a long nails drawer. Notice of rap, then silence. The old man gets up and walks away, leaving the book pierced at the table. The tips of the nails begin to drip ink. The black liquid is collected by a container, growing by layer, until a child's hand draws you to start writing on blank sheets of paper scattered on the ground.
If the form disappears, its root is eternal. (Mario Merz)
Opera red (ep. 2)
on the sea bed a painter paints a framework for trying to portray an aquarium full of goldfish. Each pictorial is frustrating at the very moment when the brush rests on the canvas, the colors are dilute and the work seems to show impossible to achieve. But something unusual happens: the colors, without the knowledge of the painter, rising to the surface and combined on the water gives life to the representation which was in her intentions.
The dissolution of the body is the establishment of the spirit. (Rene Guenon)
The beginning of a street (ep. 3)
night. A man aboard a "Ape 50" travels the streets of a city. After a long and continuous journey, find a traffic light that forced him to stop. The man waiting at the intersection when suddenly, mysteriously, the signal light turns blue.
seen from space the earth is blue. (Yuri Gagarin)
The enigma of my week (ep. 4)
in crossword puzzles, it takes the words horizontal to create words vertically. Verticals are like invisible threads that link the words together to distant intention and meaning. In the same way you can structure a crossword puzzle in pictures: put a lot of "strips" of film sequences in parallel with one below the other, then experiment from one frame to the upper one to fall down vertically, creating a new enigmatic film sequence.
The depth should be hidden. Where? The surface. (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
The depth should be hidden. Where? The surface. (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
Vertical : like drops of ink (ep. 1) as the emergence of the colors from the bottom of the sea (ep. 2) as the alternation of signs of a bright light (ep. 3), such as reading frames organized in the format of a crossword puzzle (ep. 4) .
4 times : surrealism, ambiguity, mystery, obsession.
quadrilogy , not "tetralogy" because "quartet" is inherent to the word "framework" and "framework" refers inevitably to "paint".
In Trans (ep. 1), the book pierced the table belongs to the tradition of objects "useless", Dadaists, who crowd the history of avant-garde of the twentieth century, above all, more or less consciously, is liable to pay the iron of Man Ray (Cadeau, 1958).
In Opera red (ep. 2), the picture that emerges on the surface of the water is a quote from Matisse (Poissons rouges, 1911).
It The beginning of a street (ep. 3), the Ape 50 cross a street for a moment where you can see the posters displayed by an unlikely show of French artist Yves Klein.
It The enigma of my week (ep. 4), shows a frame irreverently as well as in a female pubis Courbet's most famous (The Origin du Monde, 1866). The final sequence is then to some extent a work inspired by Fluxus artist Yoko Ono (Bottoms, film No. 4, 1966).