Substance
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Author
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Country
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Duration
00:07:52
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Production year
2021
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Category
experimental film, video
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Video format
16:9
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Sound
Yes
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Type
Artwork
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Tags
materialism, data centers, politics of memory, digital image
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Event location
France
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Rights
online: video-preview
Substance 2021, digital video, 7m52s, Full HD, color, stereo sound. An elderly woman recounts the loss of a photograph that was particularly important to her. Her story is punctuated by diverted Aristotle's phrases, which recall the irruption of the choir in the ancient tragedy. A dialogue is thus produced, at times enigmatic, which seems to put contemporary history in relation to that of the 20th century. As a decor for this dialogue, aerial images of a virtual Paris, which nevertheless reveal very real Data Centers, hidden by an architecture that mimics them in the urban landscape.
