| The House [A domestic Choreography] urban video projection I filmed the interiors of apartments in a neighbourhood in Strasbourg while trying to surprise the inhabitants as they went about their daily routine. Real scenes, sometimes directed: waiting, conversations, family scenes, solitude, cleaning. Together, the pieces form a whole that reconstructs the ideal house as a complex organism. A gesture or an action is repeated at intervals for each character. I weave relationships, I create links, I invent stories that bring them together. Sometimes everything is strangely simultaneous and coordinated, as though under a common spell, and then everything dissolves and everyone returns to their business as before. Quick simultaneous intakes of breath alternate with isolated breathlessness and solitary languishing. Small-scale social organisations, human dwellings show the standard of living, the age, the culture and the personality of their inhabitants. The life of humans in the urban context remains anonymous outside the four walls of the building or even the apartment. Urban commuting taking place in a parallel mode, meetings are due to a chance crossing of paths. Creating encounters with simultaneous movements and gestures, choreographing coincidences, while remaining within the framework of a living space. This challenges an apparently immutable structure and serves as support to a new mechanism, governed by emotion, tension and human passion, in a fictional mode. *a thank you to all the participants in this project |