MARC TRIVIER - … D’UN LENT REGARD

In his first film, the Belgian photographer Marc Trivier (1960) leads us through a variety of philosophical wanderings that occupy and influence our thinking. He creates a musical setting in which the music of Mahler and the philosophy of Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze and others enter into dialogue with each other. … d’un lent regard was conceived as a pure composition, a score in which words and thoughts alternate with still images. It is a rambling poem, a succession of extracts which, in spite of their conflicting rhythm, together form a filmic object. Everything that is static appears to become dynamic, and vice versa. The Mexican desert, the predictions of the character called William the Blind, and the heaviness of time refer to so many complex emotions and memories that when he shows an image, Marc Trivier ‘closes his eyes and listens’ in order to describe the experience, and perhaps to feel its impossible relationship with the world. The premiere of the film will be accompanied by the launch of a publication of the same title featuring an essay by Jean-Christophe Bailly.