LE CRI

of SAPIN Véronique

FRANCE, 2021, 00:02:34

Production : SAPIN Véronique
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Childhood, action, Photographs, Allegory

Summary :
This video is part of the DANGER video-composition from the FL'Art (FemLink-Art) collective<br /><br />The video is including with 12 photographies in BW and a video excerpt.<br /><br />The photographies come from the&nbsp;series "The Scream".<br /><br />Science has shown that when a person loses one sensory capacity, the others senses can compensate by becoming more acute. On the picture, the nose and eyes are absent from faces. Thus, the vacuum, the disturbing absence, provides an additional presence for the mouth.<br />The sound which pours out is all the more powerful. In other words, the sound comes into existence through the vacuum. I am looking for one sound. One sound which could represent Humanity. Each mouth shouts the same scream like a chorus in the face of the human condition.<br /><br />In this series of photos with an underlying theme of violence, the photographs don't speak about agony, confusion, anxiety, horror... thus are quite different from the painting by Munch, whose title I borrowed for this series. The characters are not terrorized. They are rebelious, committed, militant, belligerent characters. Several mouths are voicing the same scream; the scream of all times and of all the places. No eyes, noses or mouths are isolated on the faces. That makes it possible for them to share a single soul, the soul of humanity. That's as the aria in an Opera: the singer sings the aria after the recitative when the story is reaching a point of no return which only the aria can takeforward.<br /><br />The video :<br />Found on YouTube, cropped and slowed down. A little girl is screaming in a megaphone. This video was taken in the USA during a demonstration against police. The child is asking police to protect people instead of shooting them.<br />I cut her sentence to keep only : "and you too, you need to start" ; Everyone must feel concerned and act to make things change.<br />We don't see the child's face, she is turning the back. We only can hear her scream. It's like an advent.

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