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Bertrand Lamarche, Le Haut du lièvre (Nancy), 1989.
Super 8 film transferred to DVD. 3mn. edition of 4 |
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Bertrand Lamarche, Le Haut du lièvre (Nancy), 1989
. Super 8 film transferred to DVD. 3mn. |
Located on a hill in the city of Nancy, this project by Bernard Zerfuss is an idealistic gesture, typical of the 60’s, a project between land art and architecture that would soon be stigmatized among other giant projects and considered a mistake in many ways.
The film was made ten years before the building project would be transformed to a shortened proposal. Half of it was turned down.
The curves and the wavy moving image, due to the fact that the on-ride video was shot by the artist riding a bicycle, give the film a sense of fluidity and vertigo.
The soundtrack is a Kate Bushsong played backwards, emphasizing the rubbing like feeling in the image, like being in a melancholic nightmare.
