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Tramage - Jean-François Guiton (France, 1999, video, 12:00 min)
“Rhythm is the theme as well as the form of this
video. Its elements are constructed and played out through a time measure
resembling the busy tempo of city life. To begin, stripes of light are drawn
through the two sides of the black empty screen; their unpredictable crossings
and untimely collisions lead to the appearance of an opening and closing
tramway car door in the picture. Simultaneously, the rhythm unfolds in an
unsynchronized sound bar. Squeaking, sucking, the noise of a passing train: all
these different noises put together a soundtrack that sometimes falters,
sometimes accelerates, diminishes and increases in volume, or simply falls into
silence. Tramage’s interruptive and disruptive repetition of the city dweller’s
impressions revives the moment of experience in our perception.”
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