_imovie_ [3]_ silver lips / for me

Els Opsomer
biography | titles
2006
video | 00:12:14 | col. | sound

This third video letter from the imovie series - a reference to the Apple software Els Opsomer uses to explore and edit her picture material - makes use of images from Senegal. Similarly to previous editions there is a focus on the wide gap between the world at hand and the world far away, between the interior and the exterior. Everything revolves around the body of the loved one, waiting 'over there' for the right documents to travel 'over here' - a distance, a longing, too enormous to be true. Opsomer dissects the difference between a body and a picture, between tangible and intangible, between representation and imagination, presence and absence. The photos are no longer investigated, but eagerly fondled, until nothing is left to be seen. Word and image, idea and reality, white and black seem further removed than ever.

Download (pdf) - <H>ART (NL), juli 2006 - Kijken tot er niets meer is te zien

Download (pdf) - DITS, N°4, p 42-48 by Claude Lorent 953.60 Kb

Download (pdf) website Courtisane 2004 - short film, video and new media 179.65 Kb

_imovie [three]_ the agony of silence

music
stefaan quix

images/camera/editing/sound/production
els opsomer


I would like to thank
for the support:
IETM,Thierry Lewyllie, Ruth, Raf, Jean-Louis Struyf

for the patience, the mental resistance
and innovative initiatives
in unbearable circumstances:
Azza, Drim, Emily, Jack, Omar, Raed, Saed, Samira, members of the Qatar Foundation and many other soulwatchers.

for the company and interesting discussions: Anne Marie, Baudouin, Christine, Herman, Jacques Yves, Nicole, Pieter, Rudolph, and Roel.

_imovie[3]_silverlips / for me_playlist

2008 Metamorphosis III, Fundació Municipal Joan Abelló, Barcelona, Spain _imovie[3]_: silverlips/for me, week van de stilte, Holland doc, tv-channel , Holland, The Nederlands Printemps de la Francophonie, Institut Français, Barcelona, Spain 2007 Metamorphosis III, LAC Narbonne, France Loop video art fair, Barcelona, Spain Courtisane, Ghent, Belgium Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin/Madrid INTER V / MISIONES, A journey accross the Americas, Instituto Cervantes, Brussels, Belgium Fenetre sur le Court métrage contemporain, Paris, France Marko Stamenkovic, Belgrade, Serbia

2006 Cycle Auditorium, Mac's Grand Hornu, Mons, Belgium Cinematexas international short film festival, Austin, United States Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris, France Transat Video, France Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia