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.
Editor: Olivier Mignon
Essays by Vincent Amiel,
Muriel Andrin, Nicole Brenez, Olivier Mignon and Dick Tomasovic
Art intervention by David
Claerbout
Published in 2007
In French
20.5 x 15 cm
116 pages
ISBN: 978-2-9600632-1-9
EAN: 9782960063219