program
slovensky
Histoires: Stories
A4 - Zero Space, Nám SNP 12, Bratislava
23 apr 2005 07pm
Eléonore de Montesquiou (1970) is a French artist living in Berlin and Tallin. At the centre of her oeuvre is the human being in simple, everyday situations. As a part of Multiplace festival she presents her six shorter videos. In the video En attendant C. /Waiting for C. she used everyday theme of waiting for something or somebody. In her next video I Practice she let people to talk her about their relationship to different objects which belong to them. About relationship between people and their home is next video called Celibataire. Very specific sign of her videos is, that they are mostly filmed in quite unknown countries for us, so everyday situations gain another dimension. For example bath of muslim women on the beach in northern Iran in videos Nur and Elaheh, where women can bath only fully dressed and all touch are prohibited on public. Or little boys watching very popular telenovelas in small brazil village Atins in video called Televisăo.
Many of her videos have the character of a documentary film in which real people tell their authentic stories and experiences. As a part of section Single Screen, which belongs to Multiplace infocentre (open within whole duration of festival in spaces of A4 on Namestie SNP 12 from 12.00 till 20.00), will be presented two of her longer document movies. In video Swing, ma demeure-La putain et la maman- are different women telling to us about how they perceived their own pregnancy and how it changed perceiving of themselves. Video Par Ex. Ebenthal occurs in Ebenthal on the suburb of Klagenfurt and we can see there local farmers, telling about their relationship to their country and their little farms.
For Eléonore de Montesquiou is the sound component of her videos very important. For this reason, she invites to cooperate professional musicians, who compose music especially for her videos. It increases the power of the story and impression of complexity of her works.
EN ATTENDANT C. / Waiting for C.
2002, 02:10 min, B&W
It is a film about loving a man, about waiting, about traveling, about trains and all the moments when we are waiting for someone or someone is waiting for us.
I PRACTICE
2002, 03:04 min, colour
A shot on a quiet street and on a girl playing a game. The sound track of this piece is experimental combination of extracts of the stories, where people are telling about the relationship to the their own objects.
(English version)
CELIBATAIRE
2001, 03:10, B&W
Extracts from the longer film „minu maja on minu maa“, shot in Estonia, which tell about one’s relationship to own home. We can hear two different voices, which with some delay tell the same story. They are mixed and create an endless litany.
(french version with english subtitles)
NUR
2004, 04:30 min, colour, voice: Lemmbé, saxophone: Bertrand Denzler, cello: Thomas Charmetant, drums: Sébastien Del Grande
Nur is the name of a beach in northern Iran, where women must go bathing fully dressed and veiled. Where a couple is not allowed to touch, even just hands, in public. Nur is the story of a woman on the beach, and her attempt to revolt against the law.
ELAHEH
2004, 02:42 min, colour
In northern Iran, if women want to swim in swim suits, they must be hidden or imprisoned in some sort of tent on the sea. Video Elaheh shows us, how it looks inside of such tent.
TELEVISĂO
2005, 04:44 min, colour, music: lunar by Triplex, produced and mixed by Bartolo
Telenovelas are very popular in Brazil. In video Televisăo we can see the gazes of little boys watching TV in small brazil village Atins, in the sand dunes East of Sao Luis.
SWING, MA DEMEURE - LA PUTAIN ET LA MAMAN-
2003, 24:00 min, B&W, music: Helena Tulve, piano: Irina Zacharenkova
Being pregnant and having a child: to what extent does it affect a woman? Is it an aggression? Does it enhance her womanhood? Does woman feel as she is a shelter for the coming baby? How does she perceive the changes of her body? Six women in Paris answered these author’s questions.
(french version with english subtitles)
A second and parallel chapter was realized in Berlin with german women:
EIN TEIL VON DIR
2003, 24:00 min, B&W
PAR EX. EBENTHAL
2004, 21:33 min, B&W, music: Helge Hinteregger, trumpett: Franz Hautzinger
Cities are getting larger and intervene to the originally rural country. The author solves this kind of situation on the example of Ebenthal, a suburb of growing city Klagenfurt in Austria. Document tells about relationship of the farmers to their farmhouses, to their country and to their equal with this situation.
(german version with english subtitles)
Curator: Michaela Secanska
http://www.plurimedias.net/galeriezurcher/montesqiou/montesqiou.html
www.mouvement.net/leo
on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$3741
www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/ultra/fiche.php?diffusion_id=21183
www.a4.sk
