Reworked and re-edited multiple screen video work, from Corsican director and video artist Ange Leccia, made from previously released material, including Fumées (1995), Toi et moi amoureux (1995), and Toi et moi amoureux 2 (1995).
Depicts several journeys between Marseille and elsewhere-in-the-Mediterranean which spiral up and out. These trips close in on themselves forming a continuous loop where the tale gets lost in the eternal recurrence. Traversée is above all a moveable scene, an in-between, a poetic metaphor for the...
The passing time is displayed as a series of still frames, or a rapid sequence of moments, ever flowing like the waves that break on the shore, like a repeated chant with no beginning, middle or end.
Scenes of everyday life, episodes shot during journeys abroad: from New York (1986) to Asia through the Middle East (Egypt, Damascus and Palmyra in Syria, in the 1990's and 2000's). Added to these fragments of personal film, pictures taken from digital traffic: wars in the Middle East, the Arab...
Here, as often in Ange Leccia's shorts, pop music with universal overtones enhances the fascinating immateriality of the images while the 1969 song "Space Oddity" by the late musician David Bowie plays in the background.
