V1 (TOURBILLONS)

Water filmed at night, with no manipulation. The hypnotic effect of the image, composed of abstracts motifs, in dialogue with the enigmatic sound track, punctuated by micro-sound effect.

"V1 (Vortex) was shot unexpectedly during a violent storm in Venice on the canals; the city was like a real sound and visual box. The work captures a few strong moments, gathered in the real time of camera editing. Direct sound corresponds to the "abstract" images of the gusts produced by the storm. The crackling sound (reffering to digital crackling) is provoked by the pouring rain falling on the umbrella that the artist was holdiing with one hand while he was filming with the other. The direct sound, decontextualized from the filmed images, constructs a kind of mental space. The treatment of the strongly contrasted images, a sort of magma in fusion, sometimes suggests an ionized fluid, a direct reMInder of the plasma screen."

"One night, a storm was raging in Venice, and I decided on the spur of the moment to leave my hotel room and take a walk along the canals. My hand-held camera immediately took aim at the circles on the water, fantastic and ever-changing whirlpools on the water's surface. The storm became fiercer, the city was almost deserted, only a few lost souls wandered about, looking for shelter.
I was fascinated by the storm's power, and yet a bit worried that my umbrella, rather than protecting me, might serve as a rod for the lightning bolts on all sides.
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