Sixty-Seven Milliseconds

fleuryfontaine / France / 2025 / Czech Premiere / 15 min.

synopsis

It took sixty-seven milliseconds for the bullet from a police gun to hit an Arab youth in the face. This surgically precise reconstruction of a real event in a Paris suburb uses security camera footage, digitally generated images, and the early cinematographic technique of chronophotography to stylistically decompose the trajectory of the bullet and the body. Time and space collide at the boundary between the modern world and algorithms, the old and the new, the cybernetic and the physical, merging into a meditation on the illegitimacy of racially motivated police violence directed against a marginalized group of people.

“The theory of knowledge, allied to that of Capital, is expressed here through the metaphor of liquidity, a fantasy shared by teenagers, engineers and preachers of a world without losses and without borders that is constantly being regenerated.” — Harddiskmuseum

biography

The French artistic duo fleuryfontaine was formed in 2011. After Antoine Fontaine (born 1985) and Galdric Fleury (born 1985) studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, they continued their studies at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy, where they began performing under a joint name. Their work includes performances, installations, and digital art, and deals with human behaviour in the context of security cameras, artificial intelligence, and neoliberalism. Their films include Ange (2019) and Constrain (2020).