la guerre est proche (war is looming)


Claire Angelini | F 2011 | 80 min. foto

Material: DV
Format: DigiBeta
Original language: French


Script: Claire Angelini
Camera:
Claire Angelini
Editing: Claire Angelini
Sound: Claire Angelini

With Boris Lehman, Antonio Cascarossa, Marianne Bensalem, Nicole Mathieu

Production: Claire Angelini

Print/Sales: Claire Angelini

German Premiere

 

 

 

This film takes a look at the French concentration camp at Rivesaltes. It does not deal with the site of memory but rather memories of the site through the concrete and physical data visible on the ground perceived as a holed-out space mined by disappearance, in particular the buildings, which subsist as ruins. "War Is Looming" questions the historical nature of the place taking full measure of its burning actuality: the question of refugees, detention camps, displaced persons. This film is less preoccupied with drawing lessons from history than fuelling the present with a history that, like a blinding mirror, is of the utmost concern. – Ardèche Images

 

Claire Angelini, born in 1969 in Nizza, France and currently lives and works in Munich and Paris. Study of Fine Arts at the ENSBA in Paris and Art History in the Sorbonne. Her videos were exhibited in numerous installations. Besides her audiovisuell works she also publishes artist books.

Films (selection): Ici s’atteint la limite de l’effort pédagogique  2004 | Es geht eine dunkle Wolk herein 2005 | SHE/SEE (UNDERDOX 02) 2007 | Loci soli/Soliloques, La mémoire n’est pas un jeu d’enfant 2007 | Le retour au pays de l’enfance (UNDERDOX 04) 2009 | Par l’eau et par le feu 2010 (UNDERDOX 05) | La guerre est proche 2011