MORT AU ROI

COLLECTION "JOURNAUX DE VOYAGE"

of AREVALO Francisco

FRANCE, 1989, 00:06:00

Production : DURAN, MEISSNER Norbert
Genre : Video art, Travel Diary
Keyword : Politics, Travel

Summary :
It is the bicentenary of the French revolution and the end of the dictatorship in Chile. I have been invited to Paris to take part in the last days of the monarchy. Travel notes : events which I manipulate as I wish, to break my own chains from that sick country, which invites me today to dream from over there so that never again... Thank you Paris... (F. AREVALO).
Shot with the lightest tools by artists sent or invited by France in Latin America, in the Baltic States or in Paris during the video-art festivals organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those travel diaries were totally free as to form and content in order to leave full play to the feeling of strangeness and the uncertainties of encounters. They benefit from a sophisticated post-production. The result is a strange rhapsody of glances stretching over more than ten years.
The collection "Journaux de Voyages" was conceived of and directed by Pascal-Emmanuel GALLET. It is divided into : French diaries in Latin America, Latin American diaries in France, French diaries in Latvia and Balt diaries in France.

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