factory drifter
video / 2006
A character inspired by Western films, the man from nowhere, emerges from the landscape and walks toward the camera. He is going to the ghost town where he will fight in an ultimate confrontation.
Factory Drifter was given a cinematographic look, and the character’s movements were dictated by the artificial temporality of editing. These two elements help to reshape the actor’s social relationship to his real and familiar environment. The fictional coating allows to shed a new light on the way the only character —the artist's father, a factory worker— interacts with his surroundings —the factory where he has been working for most of his life.
Midway through, the video switches to a documentarian point of view: a long steady shot of the artist's father at work. The film’s own temporality is slowly replaced by real time; the framed space opens up to the real space and its depth; the artificially designed sound vanishes to give way to the harsh and direct sound of the machines; but the character continues the same action. This produces a hybrid piece where nothing was really written, nor simply witnessed, where components of fiction and reality experiment one another.
Master's Degree Exhibition - 2006
ESBAMA, Montpellier, France
Câlins du Matin - 2006 (Group Show)
ESBAMA, Montpellier, France
3èmes Rencontres Autour du Film
et de la Vidéo - 2006
Nîmes, France
Solo Exhibition - 2007
Bořivojova 49, Prague, Czech republic
Multiplace Festival - 2008
Trnava, Slovakia