A marvelous sign language has been created between man and machine in the marble quarries of Carrara, located in Italy, in the northwest of Tuscany. In an unreal science fiction-like landscape, a man directs a mechanical arm towards the marble which is about to disintegrate into several blocks. The din in Carrara must be truly deafening but the sound of the film has been filtered in such a way that all our attention is focused on the movements of the man and the mechanical arm. The camera is placed so that the jaws of the arm appear larger than the rocks in the background. But ultimately the rocks take over, completely filling the screen. And this time, the man in charge is no longer there.

In 2012, IL CAPO notably won the Grand Prix of the InLab Competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

About the artist:

Yuri Ancarani, Italian filmmaker and artist, video art teacher in Milan, has just finished the trilogy he has been developing for several years. Each of the films that compose it is dedicated to a profession that it erects into an act of beauty and courage. The men at work draw a precise choreography there. Their environment, whether extremely modern and technological or natural and mechanical, is treated the same way: his camera emphasizes immaculate surfaces, clean forms; his plans are raw, without words, as if he were trying to reach the essence of human action.

For Camera Camera the gallery presents Les Indes Galantes, a disruptive cross between images of krump dancers (the dance of the ghettos of Los Angeles) and the 18th century harmonies of Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, the visual and sound oxymoron of Cogitore works marvelously, meteor to clicks on the networks. The dancers sketch hip hop choreographies on a classical score – it’s funny and very beautiful: the opera has, it seems, taken to the streets and the latent images of Cogitore are diffused in the public space. Produced for 3e Scène, the online platform of the Paris Opera. Photo Les Films Pelleas.

About the artist

« A powerful storyteller, Cogitore plays with our eyes of Saint-Thomas – who only believe what they see – and manipulates the registers of the story: tragedy, tale, epic, chanson de geste, with today’s means. « .

Excerpt from interview by Clémentine Mercier, Liberation Next

The video would be the sum of all the reflections and the most syncretic work of the duo Florian Pugnaire and David Raffini. We see two combatants confronting each other, prisoners of a timeless loop. The set comes alive and metamorphoses around them to finally self-destruct: carried away in this perpetually changing scenography, the actors seem absorbed by the violence of their own action, almost indifferent to the brutal reactions that surround them.

About the artist:

Graduated in 2006 from Villa Arson (Nice), Florian Pugnaire then continued his studies at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing). In parallel with his personal practice, he has been working in duo with David Raffini since 2008. He has been a resident of La Station (Nice) since 2010.

A Kyrne production, with the support of the Center Pompidou, the PACA region, the DRAC PACA and the FNAGP.
Presented by the Eva Vautier gallery (Nice)