DISPERSION TAPES

of BILLAMBOZ Roxane

FRANCE, 2008, 00:10:05

Production : BILLAMBOZ Roxane
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Cinema, Experimental, Homage, Memory

Summary :
Dispersion Tapes is made of three videos that deal with ambivalence as they explore the field of cinema with numerical processing tools and softwares. It is a moving image where acceleration and repetition lead to illegibility; an evocation of human loneliness that leads to communication questioning. In the end, both the video as a malleable material and the numerical flow as a site of picture emergence are questioned and confronted with the cinematic pattern as the main presentation mode. Repulsion: Faster (3.30 min) is a work on picture acceleration and the gradual loss of visibility that results from it. The opening scene of Repulsion, (by Roman Polanski and with Catherine Deneuve), is accelerated, going five times faster (x2, x4, x8, x16 and x32 speeds, like on a standard DVD player), until it leads to an abstract plastic form modeled by speed and light. Through such system, the video gives power in a new way (through image) to the topics of the original movie: confinement, paranoia, body presentation, self-destructive process likely to lead anything to its own loss. In People Die of Exposure (4.15 min), the movement is frozen and limited to a very short video extract, the decisive moment of the head-on meeting between a man and a woman who are about to enter the same hotel room for the first time. The video uses a process of multiple repetitions and superpositions of the action, which stops any other kind of evolution and leaves the characters as if they remained stuck at the point of their decision taking. The next events will thus never happen, leaving the audience as well as the actors in a state of frustration. The spectator is then forced to focus on this artificially trapped moment. This extract is based on a scene of La peau douce, by François Truffaut. Repeat until Love and Loss Overload (2.20 min) closes the cycle by using again elements in common with the previous films such as repetition of the same scene, acceleration of the action progress and light causing loss of visibility. Here, the opening scene with Bonnie and Clyde is unfold in one direction then in another. Its becomes a material being developed by these multiple parameters until obtaining a new flow of images escaping the screen and allowing a short appearance of some pictures through available spaces of visibility. Another story then appears. It is a bit different but it still is about love, time lost forever and both deserted and bright possibilities.

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