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In April 2003, Jean-Christophe Maillot, choreographer of the
Monte-Carlo Ballet commissioned a video scenography from me for his new
creation “from one shore to the
other”.
During this period, I experimented different shooting techniques, there
were images that became ghostlike when set in slow motion, with a
strong pictorial meaning.
The composer Yann Maresh also worked on this creation by sampling
instruments of the orchestra to obtain sound material. Once slowed
down, this material established a link to the images.
Gilles Delmas Interview by Dominique Passet Baudelot. March 2003.
“It is of a documentary rather than an aesthetic nature. From the start
of rehearsals, I film everything that takes place in the dance studio.
In a way I’m a part of the film and the story,
I’m in phase with this permanent exchange between the individuals that
weave the material of the future order. These images are a living
testimony.
I also created, in two months, an actual data bank of video images:
silhouettes – the hands – the eyes – the mirror – the fragmentation –
the music – the reflections – the traces – the portraits of dancers in
the act of creating…
The composer is inspired by this and integrates the sound of a toe-tip
on the floorboards, of the water bottle banging on the piano.
These images, that bear witness to the small and big events in the
dancers lives, are shot with an unsteady camera in documentary style.
They portray the creative process, yet they are
also an intrusion and memory that is re-injected in the ballet-like so many traces or clues”
Julianne Wellerdiek Gallery, Berlin, March-April 2004
Claude Samuel Gallery, Paris, October 2003