Revolving Histories (#bangbang-0577)
un tout petit peu
https://www.pascalegrau.ch
un tout petit peu
(2008)
https://www.pascalegrau.ch
Shown at: Münchner Kunstfilmfestival am SommernachtFilmFestival, Kommunales Kino Desi Nürnberg / Transit Basel-Nairs 1, Kulturzentrum Nairs, Scuol / Diploma exhibition MAS Cultural/Gender Studies, Güterbahnhof, Zurich (ill.) / Szenen aus dem Alltag, Kunstraum Lodypop and Kino Club Basel /Regionale 9 Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz 2008
Pascale Grau recreated the performance, originally conceived as a public performance, in the studio for the camera and a secondary audience. She embodied her two grandmothers in front of the video camera. The experiment of making the familiar visible in the foreign and the foreign in the familiar ends in a new story about her and her two grandmothers. Long shots and close-ups from different angles and the sound - an essayistic memoir - are edited according to cinematic aspects and broken up 'unfilmically' to create a mixture of film, theater and performance document. Precisely because the artistic performance creates a meta-commentary on culture and its theory and can be understood as a form of remembering, it is suitable for bringing the contingency of cultural phenomena, including those of medialization, to the fore again and again in a new/performative way. Media documents and documentations must be understood as material for further practices of description and remembrance.
Pascale Grau recreated the performance, originally conceived as a public performance, in the studio for the camera and a secondary audience. She embodied her two grandmothers in front of the video camera. The experiment of making the familiar visible in the foreign and the foreign in the familiar ends in a new story about her and her two grandmothers. Long shots and close-ups from different angles and the sound - an essayistic memoir - are edited according to cinematic aspects and broken up 'unfilmically' to create a mixture of film, theater and performance document. Precisely because the artistic performance creates a meta-commentary on culture and its theory and can be understood as a form of remembering, it is suitable for bringing the contingency of cultural phenomena, including those of medialization, to the fore again and again in a new/performative way. Media documents and documentations must be understood as material for further practices of description and remembrance.
automatically translated from german
Regionale 9, Münchner Kunstfilmfestival am Sommernacht: FilmFestival/ Transit Basel-Nairs 1/ Szenen aus dem Alltag
place: Kommunales Kino Desi, Nürnberg; Kulturzentrum Nairs, Scuol; Kunstraum Lodypop und Kino Club Basel, Basel; Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel 2008
Dokumentationstyp: Performance/Aktion für die Kamera / Performance/Action for the Camera
Medium
Video 4:3
Dauer: 4:30