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// Screening and talk with Raphael Grisey
// Date: 21. April 2011, Start 20.00
Minhocão / The Indians / National Motives
3 Films by Raphael Grisey
National motives
Video 28’ – 2011
National Motives is a nocturnal cruising in Budapest through sites,
monuments and other ghosts of the redefined Hungarian national identity
after the breakdown of the communist era and the recent raise of
ultra-nationalism. The film was shot in the winter 2007-2008, one year after
the ultra nationalist riots and demonstrations of October 2006, before the
growth of the far-right party Jobbik and conservative Fidesz Party in the
Hungarian parliamentary election of 2010. Beggars singing in a train
station, Romas recycling old furniture, spotlights shutting on and off on
emblematic monuments, flags´ shadows, sculptures of historical figures shot
in the dark, real estate building sites, the Budapest stock exchange, the
former flat and office of the philosopher György Lukács, shouting in a
far-right demonstration, vernacular modernist worker housings and antic
ruins left visible in undergrounds of a former communist block housing
district. The film’s assemblage of sites, figures, micro events and sounds
aims to create a disruptive portrait of the city of Budapest which mirrors
the actual state of financial and national crisis in its public spaces. What
happens when the staged lighting of national monuments is turned off? The
cruising modifies the cartography of the city, revealing forgotten figures,
transforming national identities into hybrid monsters.
The Indians
Video 35’ English subs – 2011
In the context of the students´ strike and occupation of the French
university Rennes 2 in Winter 2009, a jam pot, a thermal station, a
Caribbean drums band and the poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant are
converging and conversing. Reproduction of struggles seems here to imply
displacements and a wandering into different sites of knowledge.
Minhocão (The big worm)
Video 31´ English subs – 2011
A car with a big sound system broadcasts a text of Eduardo Affonso Reidy on
his modern architecture precepts. It drives around the Conjunto Habitacional
Pedregulho, a social housing complex build from 1946 by the same architect
and also called Minhocão (the big worm) by his inhabitants. The ballet of
the driving car, combined with interviews, sound extracts from the fiction
film « Lucio Flávio, the passenger of agony » (shot partly in the site) and
other scenes, produce a portrait of a major modernist Brazilian building and
of the popular northern zone´s context of Rio de Janeiro. The film raises
issues about patrimony and memory of social housings in a place which is
about to be renovated after 50 years of state´s abandonment and autonomous
management.
Raphael Grisey
(1979, lives in Paris and Berlin)
Raphaël Grisey, artist in the time-based arts, realized experimental films, video installations, video-essays, and documentaries. His work gathers or produces narratives around collective memories, migration or architecture.
www.raphaelgrisey.net
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