Interactive cinema, 2008-09
In dialog with the film Last Room by Pierre Carniaux
Original title : Dépli
The installation Unfold is conceived in dialog with the movie Last Room shot in Japan by the director Pierre Carniaux, who broaches relations between the collective and the private, word and landscape. The movie and the installation form a diptych, based on the same rushes. Their relationship proposes an interrogation about the evolution of the cinema esthetics and writing, and the status and praxis of the film viewer.
The installation is arranged and enacted in a cinema: a multitouch interface, set in the middle of the auditorium, enables spectators, on an individual basis, to try out an on-going browsing within the space and the temporality of the film’s rushes. Cinematographic space-time is here treated as an on-going form of matter, through which the spectator browses through the middle, and seamlessly, via a multitouch interface which physically engages him.
This browse is experienced like the itinerary of a body and a way of seeing: movements in time, shifts from one rush to the next, slow motion, jumps, and freeze frames.
