Countdown in reverse
(Countdown à rebours)
2010. With Roméo Monteiro. Presentation at "Médiathèque de Vaise" in Lyon. With the support of: Hessische Theaterakademie, Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft Gießen, Stadt Gießen.
The video is filmed in HD and Super 8 and, therefore, mixes two very different filmic materials. On one hand I wanted to show the materiality of an emotion (like in this case, grief) but also the transformation of the perception of the world that changes radically when one is struck by very strong emotions or struggles with them. I have related this transformation of the world by the mere perception to the idea of romantic landscape paintings that very often try to capture a certain extreme emotional double-reaction towards nature as the most strange and the most familiar thing in the world.
