Livre II

Our second issue is about a topic at the interface between the arts and the humanities: "the body in film", the body that occupies, entertains or takes possession of cinematic discourse; the body that engenders, overtakes or takes the place of discourse. In the background, David Claerbout rolls out a selection of frames from White House, a video consisting of the same sequence repeated 73 times in a single day. Through this narrative segment haunted by the ghosts of Shakespeare and Kazan, the artist slowly delivers a paradoxical and provisional quintessence of film here, in the unusual medium of a journal. Above all, he confronts us with actors’ bodies subjected to the vagaries of climate and fatigue, light and time; bodies that gradually thicken and rise up as if to challenge the narrative.