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Tabula Rasa

Sébastien Cros

Film performance | France | 16 mm | 1.37 | b&w | mono | 2005 | 15'  00"

Screening Copy: VHS
Tabula Rasa is the second chapter of a three-part project, whose central element, which follows Nocte, is a performance adhering to the same system: a double screen where black and white images of a film reel unwind, and a third beam of light in which material is invented for each projection. An imaginary journey through Europe tracing the cartography of the ruin, a melancholic voyage through time, a look at fingerprints and trace, absence, stone and dust. To experience the silver film as a wall experiences the passing of man and time, in search of a fracture, a breach where only it survives, among the ashes and the debris, a blind lightwave traversing a wasted land. There is no bond that time does not erase.

Credits

Director: Sébastien Cros

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