Film

Ismaïl Bahri, Film, 2012

Film


Series of 6 videos
HD Video
16/9
Color
No sound
Variable durations
2012


Conversation with Barbara Sirieix / English
Conversation avec Barbara Sirieix / Français
Ismaïl Bahri - A propos de l'exposition Mandrake a disparu / Français


Film groups together a series of short films using the same procedure : a passage, chosen and cut out of the newspaper of the day, is coiled then left on a surface made of black ink. At the ink’s touch, the paper unfurls, freeing itself from the gesture which had created it. The paper snippet thus begins to live and, at the same time, it reveals – as if in a fragile kinematic – a hidden content, the clues of events that never stop flying by. As it explores a kind of archaeology of cinema, this device refers to the passing of the time, where the ink, whether it is poured or printed, traces ongoing human history.

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Ismaïl Bahri, Film, Video still, 2012
Ismaïl Bahri, Film, Exhibition view, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2017