Conception and image by Benito Conrad
Sound by Julio Santa Cecília
45’00”
Blue is darkness made visible
Derek Jarman
The concept of “Live Cinema”, largely inspired by musical performance (especially by DJs), translates into the live projection and editing of a film.Derek Jarman
Re.Cycle audiovisual performance is built around “loops”. It consists of interposing super-8 films between two projectors, creating thus a succession of repetitions and transitions.
The film-performance is made from fake found footage, and can perhaps best be classified as an “experimental mockumentary”. A postcard, distributed at the start of the show, contextualizes the spectator in a dystopian society:
“[...]Two reels of Super 8 film were found in Lille, in the north of France. They are the only images found after the great floods that hit the whole of Western Europe. Ironically, these archives show the industrial cycle passing through manufacture (factory), transport (port) and dumping (landfill). [...]”
The images projected here are, however, the only archives to have survived major floods. The film has lost its original color, with only the blue base persisting. The point here is to show these “fake archives” in a different historical context and the viewer becomes a fictional element of the work.