"Camera and the Mirror" takes its point of departure in a live essay
performed by Lalou around the camera apparatus and its transverse point
from a device to its intersubjective role in societies today, looking at
the functions of cinematic mechanisms. The live essay uses material from
Lalou’s recent research on the role of the camera completed as part of a
residency at ISCP in New York and her on-going research on ‘mechanism of
the seen’, including both diagrammatic drawings and video footage
extracted from the research on three films: Le Mépris (1965) by Jean-Luc
Godard, Salaam Cinema (1995) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Parallel I-IV
(2012- 2004) by Harun Farocki, as well as from Lalou’s own recent film
The Dialogue (2018).
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With the starting point in the study of film and artistic practices in which the relation between camera, view and actor, subject and object is fore grounded and destabilized, Lalou extracts the relation of the cameras’ role in the animated experience of the viewer into four short video essays.
video essays:
Camera Actors, 2018 (13:19) with video footage from Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard
Human Agents, 2018 (04:09) with video footage from Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Animated World, 2018 (06:00) with video footage from Parallel I-IV by Harun Farocki
Virtual Presence, 2018 (18:58)
with the kind supports of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Camera and The Mirror