Possible tracks for short cuts

Biennal / Louvain-La-Neuve, 2017 - iMAL / Brussels, 2019 - CWB / Paris, 2020

Mark1

Video clips, texts, music, editing algorythm
illimited duration, variable format (site-specific installation)

Possible Tracks for Short Cuts, a hybrid audiovisual experience combining video, sound and text. Borrowing from film and computer language, the work consists of a series of short cuts, sound tracks and text excerpts arranged randomly according to variants produced by an algorithm. The result, dreamlike, dark, disturbing or melancholic, evokes as many stories as possible, such as trailers, series credits or episodes summaries...

Supported by the words of Laurent de Sutter's texts and the sounds of Youri Balcers, this poetry of randomness carries the spectators into the belly of the city, into a succession of unidentified places devoid of human presence that participate in its "great machinery". The screen within the screen, like a transition lock, offers them unexpected trajectories from which they witness the emergence of a singular narrative, making the spaces they pass through the witnesses of their own physical and mental journeys...