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// 16mm screening Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright by Gaelle Rouard // 70 min / 2022 / 16mm |
16.NOV h 20.30 > WAAG |
The experimental short films Darkness, Darkness, Burning bright- prelude and Darkness, Darkness, Burning bright –
explore a rural landscape with mythical connotations, projected on 16mm.
explore a rural landscape with mythical connotations, projected on 16mm.
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first part Prelude
Darkness, darkness, burning bright In the forests of the night Vast flowered paths, fresh branches, Groves full of perfumes, birds and whispers, Site often seen again, and always contemplated Wind that gurgles at the bottom of the chimneys that months, hours and days.... To the windows that a beautiful clear ray wants to tarnish, So many rays that will all arrive too late! crowned Of joy and flowers, in the wheat. Wind which gurgles at the bottom of the chimneys that months, hours and years.... The moon, the sun, the sky and the stars Over there, mooing groups of great oxen with gloomy eyes So that, immersed in their sweetness and their prayer More clear and better tempered, they are returned. For those who see them naked and without veils, The moon, the sun, the sky and the stars! second part Oraison Darkness, darkness, burning bright In the forests of the night And the mad impulse of this distraught soul, And that had, the forehead circled in copper, under the moon O mysterious death, O sister of charity. What soul should it take in this old growth forest Who goes, climbing the mountains, to the sky to storm, Great night ! August sanctuary of secrets Ancestor of the ancient sea and forest Frail herbs, ten der branches, hollyhocks, And the shadow that brushes and the wind that knots, And strongly, with the fists of its clouds, On the greenish horizon, crushes suns. |
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Gaëlle Rouard is an artist working with experimental film and performance. Active since the early 1990s, she has developed a distinctive practice of handmade filmmaking, with a particular focus on film processing and development.
She was a longstanding member of Le 102, rue d’Alembert in Grenoble, a center dedicated to experimental cinema and music, and directed the independent film laboratory Atelier MTK for twelve years, until 2006. Rouard regularly conducts workshops in art schools and other contexts, transmitting her expertise in chemical film processing. Her performances, presented internationally, investigate the possibilities of live multi-projection, both in collaboration with other artists and as solo work. |