Monica’s portrait

Monica’s portrait

5′ | 2015 | Portugal

  • Friche | 11 nov 2022 | 20h30
  • 5′ | 2015 | Portugal
  • João Cristovão Leitão
  • video

Potentiellement, Mónica est tout. En conséquence, ses portraits sont nés de la juxtaposition de sons et d’images extraits de l’archive audiovisuelle qu’est YouTube. On y néglige les droits d’auteur, on y usurpe les intentions de ceux qui sont négligés et des vérités (im)possibles se testent. Ainsi, le portrait de Mónica ne se veut pas un document inflexible – qui informe et certifie – mais plutôt un montage audiovisuel capable de proposer l’inévitable identité multiple des choses, du son, de l’image et de l’humanité.

Mónica is, in theory, anything. Therefore, her portraits are born from the juxtaposition of sounds and of images taken from the audiovisual archive that is YouTube. Copyrights are neglected, the purposes of those who are neglected are usurped and (im)possible truths are tested. Thus, Mónica’s Portrait isn’t intended as an inflexible document – which informs and certifies –, but rather as an audiovisual montage able to suggest the inevitable and multiple identity of things: of sound, of image and of mankind.

[programmation : Festival Images Contre Nature]

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