Au film du temps

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Au film du temps at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny (14.10.2022 – 08.01.2022)

Text: interview with Cyrille Sciamma, director of the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny

publisher: Atelier EXB, in co-publication with the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny
paperback, 17,5 x 26 cm
french
2022
isbn: 978-2-36511-349-6
184 pages
about 150 images
42€

This book invites the reader to an immersive experience through a selection of videos from the 1980s to 2022. In a polysemic narrative, the filmic works of Ange Leccia such as La Mer, Drapeau, Ô Superman and Chênes Verts, unfold in a long poetic tracking shot playing with the codes of Super-8 cinema. With no real beginning nor end, like a video loop, the images can be enjoyed as if entering a camera obscura. The grain of the video image, the sometimes saturated colors, the variations of light, the play of shadows immerse us in representations at the limit of abstraction, in a hypnotic palpitation. The material becomes almost pictorial. With Leccia, nature – earth, air, sea, fire, wind – awakens the senses: the viewer loses his bearings, his anchor points in reality.