PEINTURES FILMIQUES

’Peintures filmiques’ is a series of short impressions of the artist’s everyday life, with the content radically condensed. The artist films events which take place in his immediate surroundings. The pace of many recordings is forced, the montage is rapid and sound is missing. The view is kaleidoscopic, the effect is hallucinatory. In the other recordings an objectifying gaze prevails: a shoemaker, a cashier and an office building are plainly shown in a single shot without any editing afterwards. As the title suggests, the result can be viewed as a set of filmed paintings. The series ends with a recording of the tombstone of Marcel Broodthaers.