Maalbeek
| Director | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis |
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The explosion was recorded by dozens of surveillance cameras, witnesses’ mobile phones, and the emergency services and journalists who rushed to the site. But this overabundance of visual and audio material contrasts with how hard it is to comprehend the reality and take it in. Even the people who experienced the event seem incapable of describing or remembering it. By degrading the video signal, fragmenting it to get closer to an almost abstract material, the film tries to capture what the explosion must’ve been like. But still, the crucial moment is evasive. The senses, common sense and memory are short-circuited. In this new, hybrid film that combines real images and animation, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis offers us a powerful movie, an experiment on the limitations of perception and the senses.
Éva Tourrent
Tënk's Artistic Director
The explosion was recorded by dozens of surveillance cameras, witnesses’ mobile phones, and the emergency services and journalists who rushed to the site. But this overabundance of visual and audio material contrasts with how hard it is to comprehend the reality and take it in. Even the people who experienced the event seem incapable of describing or remembering it. By degrading the video signal, fragmenting it to get closer to an almost abstract material, the film tries to capture what the explosion must’ve been like. But still, the crucial moment is evasive. The senses, common sense and memory are short-circuited. In this new, hybrid film that combines real images and animation, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis offers us a powerful movie, an experiment on the limitations of perception and the senses.
Éva Tourrent
Tënk's Artistic Director
