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Le Mouvement des Images (Centre Pompidou)(2006-11-07) Until the 29th of January, Centre Georges Pompidou hosts the exhibit "Le Mouvement des Images".
Exploring 4 main lines (Frame Roll, Editing, Projection, Story), this exhibition focuses on the tremendous changes the invention of cinema brought, and how picture, as a conceptual object, slipped from being fixed and still, to being fluid and reproducible.
In this welter of movies, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations, "Le Mouvement des Images" exposes the links between arts and cinema as a process related to time and creation, as well as entertainment as a plastic and political territory.
The Centre Pompidou couldn’t miss this obvious occasion to release a DVD, as a visual statement for the exhibition’s issues.
The eponymous DVD « Le Mouvement des Images » brings together Anémic Cinéma by Marcel Duchamp (a visual Dada based on his former works with rotating discs), Hand Catching Lead by Richard Serra (silent questioning of repetition, effort, trace, motion: cinema as physical experience), Rhythm by Len Lye, a pioneer of experimental cinema (scratching, burning, etching the films), The Garden Of Luxor by Derek Jarman (multiple exposures of still images and coloured filters being like memories crashing, metamorphosing, vanishing, exposing the mechanics of Death behind Cinema…
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