The act of seeing with one’s own eyes— un film de Stan Brakhage /

Avec sa caméra, Brakhage entre dans l'un des endroits les plus interdits et les plus terrifiants de notre culture : la salle d'autopsie. Le titre reprend l'origine du mot autopsie, du grec autopsia, ‘l'acte de voir de ses propres yeux’. Donc confronter sa propre peur de la mort, quand la peau n'assure plus l'ordre symbolique de notre vision du corps, qu'elle ne recouvre plus avec la forme humaine la matière de tissus, d'organes et de sang.

‘...S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of OTHERS.
This last is a process that requires a WITNESS; and what 'idea' may finally have inserted itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for the CAMERA would seem the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance.’ Hollis Frampton
Thèmes : Body, Documentary

Tarif de location pour une projection : 90 €