Philippe Parreno

"Michel Amathieu, Djamel Benameur, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, James Chinlund, Maurice Cotticelli, Hubert Dubedout, François Dumoulin, Ebezeber Howard, M/M Paris, Pierre Mendès-France, Miko, Neyrpic, Alain Peyrefitte, Inez van Lamsweerde &Vinoodh Matadin, Anna-Léna Vaney, Angus Young"
2000
installation
35mm film /colour/stereo transferred on master digital, length 6'30"
Photograph of Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin.
Halogen light with electrical system allowing for diverse intensity levels.

Suppose a place, waste grounds around brand new cities and a date-1976-the date that urban planning was implemented-green design-teenagers protesting against this new scenery that is destroying their sports field; they are systematically ripping away at the trees that the municipality has planted, hanging plastic bags around the young plants.

One of the ways to reproduce this image, in the most objectively manner, would be to unite different points of view and then coordinate them. Each person litteraly becomes one point coordinated within this image. Angus Young, the idole from the late Ô70s, for example; the ACDC guitarist playing a couple of riffs on the images, which would help to create a recollection, a memory, in which he played a big part.

This film is made up from a sum of imprecisions, of things forgotten, of memories. It therefore becomes the product of the sum of all of these subjective points of view, going way beyond the event.

This film is the result of an investigation carried out about a place. It is the product of different subjective points of view grouped around one memory.