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Jacques Perconte / France / 2014 / World Premiere / 16 min.

synopsis

A dawn journey through the Père Lachaise cemetery transforms the visible record of the place into digital traces of daybreak, thus making tangible the memory of this place and projecting it into the qualities of the various image components, with an emphasis on color information, whose tones change from dark to bright and glowing. The film came about from the director’s work on Léos Carax’s Holy Motors. It is accompanied by the music of Jean-Benoît Dunckel.

DETAIL:
Shades of metal blue and gray appear in contours that emerge from the edges of trees and tombstones, and transform the surfaces for the sky light shining through.

biography

Jacques Perconte (1973) is a French filmmaker, new media artist, and pioneer in the area of internet art. He has been experimenting with digital images, codecs and image compression since the mid-1990s. Jihlava IDFF has previously shown his Chuva (Madeira) (2013), Árvore da Vida (Madeira) (2012), Les Moutiers (2012), After the Fire (2010), Pauillac, Margaux (2008).