SE FAIRE DES AMIS

SEPT VIDÉOS

of BOURGET Laëtitia

FRANCE, 2006, 00:25:00

Production : Avec le soutien de l'Alliance française à Melbourn, Avec le soutien de l'ambassade de France à Sydney, Avec le soutien du MAS, BOURGET Laëtitia
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Allegory, Animals, Communication, Humour, Relation

Summary :
Making Friends is a series of video realised with animals.
This project stems from the questioning of both social norms and human/animal relationship.
It sets up and works out through various situations of encounters with animals. Attempts to communicate, integrate, establish contacts, cohabitate, help each others... These situations are ambivalent in their fantasy of harmony between all living creatures and a desire to control an animality that is unpredictable and threatening.
Sentences, belonging to the register of social rules, match the videos as a reference to the experience of a sociability, of a savoir-vivre together. An installation stages this video material through a succession of monitors, crossed by the spectator as an initiatory path.
It can be screened as a serial of seven episodes.

Making Friends has been made possible with the support of the Cultural Affairs of the French Embassy in Sydney, the Alliance française of Melbourne, the AIR project of the RMIT in Melbourne, Le Mas in France.

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