Le Granier
Olivier Fouchard FR, 2007, 14', 35 mm
In Le Granier, the earth is living, is suffering and is full of history. The still camera shows a tired mountain which seems to hide a sacred secret. These telluric landscapes transfigured by manipulations on the image, tell the history of this mountain populated with incantations, and its belonging to this wild nature. This film could be understood as a kind of continuation/inversion of Paul Cézanne's Mont Saint-Victoire paintings, which, according to philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, depicted the mountain as an "emerging organism". The Mont Granier represented by Fouchard is also alive, but suffering: rather than perceiving its organic emergence, we see its slow decomposition.
Thu 26/9 Kino Kinoteka 14:00
