Sylvain L'espérance
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Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
Western Sunburn
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_Western Sunburn_ is a "rephotography" in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
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In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
Western Sunburn
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_Western Sunburn_ is a "rephotography" in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
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In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
