Augustin Gimel

Topographical video born from the meeting of a tunnel located at Hamburg (Germany) and Mictlan, the Aztec underworld. Circular and underground journey towards the dematerialization.

Cinematographic Siamese. The music, immaterial by nature, becomes the concrete bond that links the projected films. Twins rejoined, creatures with two faces, as Janus.

Bodies and movements recomposed from thousands of pornographics images.

There is nothing more useless than an organ wrote Antonin Artaud in 1947, by the way he gave a name to a new kind of existence : the Body without Organs. The film is divided into three parts, following the division of the poem The Divine Comedy, the chronology of Dante’s trip through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise is respected. During this travel his human body is reconstructed and reorganised into a new body freed from his organism and from his organs. This new body, in touch with Beatrice, and by his ascension, becomes point of circulation of flows and intensities of all kinds.

Rotating landscape, animated postcard, the Anosy lake in Antananarivo (Madagascar) considered as a space to approach by his own characteristics.

Chaos of concrete, glass and metal give birth to a luminous edge. Gap and frontier between darkness and light. Materiality versus immateriality.