Cinema@home (2003-07)

Installations

A series of 13 mini-installations, each taking a classic film as a starting point: Lost Highway, Stalker, 12 Angry Men, Vertigo, American Beauty, Shall We Dance, To Have and to Have Not, Nouvelle vague, Casablanca. Drawing from the cinematic legacy embedded in our collective consciousness, the installations assemble variations, not unlike musical improvisations, involving playback speed, interactivity, translation and localization. Select Web 2.0 technologies are used to create variations in the movies, with data processed through Flickr, Amazon and Google Street View. The network contains all possible images. An ironic tribute to the art of the previous century.

Vidéoprojecteur, ordinateur / dimensions variables

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Random editing of Jean Luc Godard’s movie : Nouvelle Vague (1990).

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Lost Highway (1997) is a story about doubles. Both caracter are one searching a women. The screen is divided in two spaces with a caracter in each one. By touching the mouse the user can create a new film editing.

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Casablanca (1943) is a movie about traduction. In Casablanca during World War II German, French and English were mingling. But everyone has the same accent because Casablanca is in Hollywood. I have translated Casablanca’s subtitles in many ways. I did it in colors so it became a serie of monochromes. Then with Amazon wich translate subtitles in book titles. Finally the text is translate in images in real time using Flickr.

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In Vertigo (1958) the caracters are driving through San Francisco. A man is following a woman searching her non-existing past. With Google Streetview I was able to recreate the caracter’s journey. I re-shoot Vertigo, at home.

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The speed of the sound and images of Stalker (1979), Marathon Man (1976) and American Beauty (1999) depend on the speed of the user’s internet connexion.

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This work take as a starting point the sequence where Fred Astaire is trying to beat a machine by dancing in Shall we dance (1937). By playing with the keyboard, the user can make Fred Astaire dance.

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Inspired by 12 Angry Men (1957), this work propose an another vision of this famous closed door movie by letting the user edit the film according to the place where each character is sitting.