JEAN-LUC GODARD CONTRE STEVE MC QUEEN

of LIèVRE Pascal

FRANCE, 2004, 00:02:00

Production : LIEVRE Pascal
Genre : Video art, Filmed action
Keyword : Homage, Experimental

Summary :
Pascal Lièvre resumes the process of an installation by the English visual artist, Steve McQueen: lluminer, 2001, which shows the artist naked, lying on a bed, watching a television report devoted to the British and American troops engaged in Afghanistan whose one only hears the sound. The camera is placed on the TV, and trying to focus. Pascal Lièvre puts the camera on his TV, on the bed a naked woman, motionless and on TV: "Contempt".

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