ÉCHELLE HUMAINE

expérimental      Québec      2002      sans dialogue        0:04:00                                                                 

Commentaire corporel, visuel et sonore sur l’accélération du rythme de vie et sur notre devoir d’être sans cesse performants, actifs et productifs. L’action se déroule dans un centre de diffusion universitaire. Dans un jeu de réflexions et de transparences, d’apparitions et de disparitions, le temps réel rencontre le temps reconstruit, passant du rythme naturel au montage saccadé.

BIO

Échelle humaine (in English: human scale and/or human ladder) issues from thoughts on the accelerated lifestyles, on the mechanized tempo of everyday life, and on one’s duty to be productive. In a drab and institutional setting, the artist plays the game of work. Objects come alive, the body is set in motion, powered by an invisible force, manipulated like a puppet. The soundtrack, constructed with samples of the metallic noise of a stepladder, evokes an industrial environment.                

Échelle Humaine is a physical, visual, and audio commentary on the ‘fast paced’ rhythm of our lives, and our own need to be forever actively and productively ‘doing’.  The video takes place in a university screening room. This institutional and minimal surrounding, allows us to see what is passing us by through a large window.  In a way that plays with transparencies, reflections, fades, and dissapearances, the video lets real time meets reconstructed time in a seemingly natural rhythm created through jump cut editing.