The screening

2007

performance and video installation

24′

The Screening is a performance that stages a movie.

“One night, in a forest. Owls, furets, foxes… The usual activities of the beasts are disrupted by rays of lights: it’s a group of humans. They gather in front of a white surface onto which, when it’s dark again, shadows start moving.”

This synopsis is both the narration of a performance, and the one of the film it features. An audience is guided into a forest by torchlight. They sit in a glade, before a screen, and a film projection starts.
At first reminiscent of a wildlife film, as it progresses a certain continuity with the truth emerges, people having the feeling of watching themselves on screen. The film is a ‘mise en abyme. Not quite a duplicate, it is rather a distorting mirror that stretches reality from behind the bushes. (…)