EYES WITHOUT A PLACE: CINE-FILE PRESENTS CHLOE GALIBERT-LAÎNÉ | JUNE 9-13
EYES WITHOUT A PLACE: CINE-FILE PRESENTS CHLOE GALIBERT-LAÎNÉ | JUNE 9-13
The 31st Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival is streaming online from June 9 to 13. This year’s festival includes several in-person screenings and installations. Check out the full program at Onioncityfilmfest.org! Admission is a sliding scale suggested donation.
EYES WITHOUT A PLACE: CINE-FILE PRESENTS CHLOE GALIBERT-LAÎNÉ | JUNE 9-13
Streaming June 9 – 13, Artist Q&A on Saturday, June 12 at 7:30 pm
Chloé Galibert-Laîné’s work explores the intersection between cinema and online media. Focusing her distinctive gaze on such moving images as artist film, video games, terrorist propaganda, and everything in between, Galibert-Laîné’s performative essays burrow into the mystifying language of sound and picture. Chicago-based critic Jonathan Rosenbaum hailed The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney as one of the best films of 2018; her work has shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the True/False Film Fest, the Images Festival, the European Media Art Festival, the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, and the Kasseler Dokfest, among others.
This program, presented by Cine-File, includes two solo works along with her recent epistolary collaboration with critic and filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, and will be available from Saturday at noon until the end of the festival. All descriptions culled from Galibert-Laîné’s website.
A very long exposure time
Inventing a poetic path through images created with Louis Daguerre's centuries-old photographic device, 16mm film cameras, pixelated video games consoles, early smartphones and contemporary computer interfaces, the work asks: what aspects of reality have these different technologies been designed to document? What phenomenon, either too slow or too fast to be recorded, have escaped their capture? Are there still dimensions of our experience on Earth that have never been visually documented, and for which photographic technologies are yet to be invented?
Chloe Galibert-Laîné
France, 2020, 07:00 mins
The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney
A video essay on sound inspired by a text by Serge Daney on Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960).
Chloé Galibert-Laîné
France, 2017, 10:00 mins
Bottled Songs 1-4
A series of video letters exchanged between Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee, documenting their investigations of online media related to the audiovisual propaganda produced by the terrorist organization Islamic State. These “desktop epistolaries,” recorded from the artist-researchers' computers, depict their experiences navigating through an unstable virtual environment of fear and attraction. The epistolaries examine a range of subjects connected to ISIS media: specific videos produced by ISIS; spectral figures who appear in the videos; and viewers of the videos with a diverse range of motivations and interests. These multiple manifestations of the work account for the volatile and mutational nature of contemporary terrorism across medias: a network of intersubjective desires perpetually (mis)perceived, (mis)understood, commented, shared, re-purposed and re-contextualized. These investigations combine to give a multifaceted account of the images, people and networks that make up an unruly sphere of online terrorist media.
Chloé Galibert-Laîné & Kevin B. Lee
Germany/France, 2020, 77:00 mins
