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Hands present and remaining in the mass of the image. Hands undressing the white of the image. It is the same hands which kills. If films had remained silent, it would have contributed to create a sort of thesaurus of visual anthropology where the hand, only actress, would have become the master of the game, touching from the tip of the finger the surface’s white. Here is what we lacked, the missing link between video and cinema, between a stop and a promise to start again. Frédéric Lecomte elaborates video notebooks executed with the speed of a sketch, a sketch of a moving image, a recycling of films, of TV, a sum of images which he then reactivates when he cuts them up and empty them out. This is what he calls “décorps” which literally means “unbody” and is a pun with the french “décor”. The “décorps” where video acts itself as theatre of the ambiguous, as ambiguity of the theatre, which exposes truth and illusion in a same movement of giving and withdrawing. But those cut out images, skeletons of an image which had lost any likeness to its original, ask the question not of what they are showing but of what they do not show anymore. Skeleton of a film image, for the latter, it is its certificate of presence. Does it need it? Surely, because working with images is also working with reality and – as Philippe Dagen was writing in Le Monde of June 17th 2005 – “Lecompte is doing it by only keeping the brief shock effect, fire guns and embraces repeated over and over again as the two stylistic figures of an imagery which only knows two selling arguments, sex and death."
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Frederic Lecomte (their other films)
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Genre: Erotic |
| Country: France |
Copyright Year: 2005 |
| Original Format: DVD |
Color Type: B&W/Color |
| Sound Type: Magnetic Stereo |
Length: 00:07:35 |
| Original Language: No Dialogue |
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Extraits : 1°partie
Le patient anglais, Minghella
Mulholland drive, Lynch
L’armée des 12 singes, Gilliam
Eye’s wide shut, Kubrick
Web porn site
Volte face, Woo
Billy Elliot, Daldry
Cris et chuchotements, Bergman
Américan beauty, Mendes
Le mari de la coiffeuse, Leconte
Extraits : 2° partie
Rome ville ouverte, Rossellini
Windtalkers, John Woo
Total Western, Rochant
Open Range, Cosner
Le pianiste, Polanski
Une nuit en enfer, Rodriguez
Band of Brother’s, Spielberg
Gothika, Kassowitz
Blueberry, Kounen
Terminator, Cameron
Il était une fois dans l’ouest, Léone
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