Institute: Le Fresnoy (France)
Year: 2011
Runtime: 18′
Country: France
Language: no dialogue
Description: A character appears in a dark empty. He comes to the foreground, agitated, as embarrassed by his clothes. Then, a chair appears. A first object with which the subject can make contact with it. Here begin a strange history of lonely body, isolated and independent, grappling with their inner compulsions and an enigmatic territory with kind of actor-object: here, a chair, a door, a coat rack, a sink…Each character is a specific compulsions personified (checking, washing, scratching, etc…) invading a space becoming more limited and constrained. A strange machine is set up with repetitive movements, absurd and increasingly frightening
About the director: Vincent Ciciliato is a multimedia artist, musician and PhD in Fine Arts. Actually, he continued his training at the Fresnoy.
After a postgraduate degree at the University Paris 8, he continued his research on real-time interaction in the post-graduation ARI at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Here, he produced several works including Incremento, exposed in the exhibition “TRANSMISSIONS (ICHIM)” at the Citè Internationale Universitarie de la Ville de Paris in 2005. He collaborates regurarly with the CITU laboratory of Paris 8, and partecipates in 2006 at OUTLAB and in 2009 at the exhibition IN/OUT x.0 with Qualia, a generative work supported by Arcadi.
As part of his visual and theoretical researches focus primarly on relationships between sound and image in the interactive and generative devices, but also their involvement in aesthetic representative and screenwriting. Much of his work questioning the body by addressing the specific concepts of behavior and micro-movement.
