Out of one's screen
LINDA LINDA LINDA
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Performative film with 3 screens
equiped with motion detectors
13 mins in loop
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VideoBox 8, Carreau du Temple
converted changing room
Paris
9.02 - 9.04 2018
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Invited by currators
Eva Vaslamatzi, Corentin Canesso (DOC)
Maëla Bescond (Carreau du Temple)
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It was the first time that I was invited by more
than one currator to perform a 2 months's film installation.
It took place in a converted changing room of the Carreau du Temple,
an iconic industrial building (built under the reign of Napoleon III)
in the Haut-Marais district, a former clothes market transformed in 2014
in a multidisciplinary venue.
Among real changing rooms, there was this changing room with 1 screen
and 2 monitors in the showers space which please me very much.
At this exact time, I was working on the restage of Linda Marlowe,
a 70 years old actress who played a stripper on a polemic
experimental film of Steven Dwoskin in the 70's. I decided to perform this
3 screens's piece which content was so called provocative.
The room was open daytime mostly for the users of the venue
so it was a rather informal and intimate way to experience the film.
I built a motion detector under the screen and the 2 monitors that triggers
a switch from the old footages to new footages I have done.
The 3 strippers were dancing in their own all days in the changing room
until a viewer interacts with them.

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Perfomers in films:
Actors Linda Marlowe and
Jimmy Stanley (2018, Philomène Hoël)
Strippers Jenny Runacre, Linda Marlowe and Pat Fordfrom
from Dyn Amo (1972, Stephen Dwoskin)
Prisonners from Un chant d'amour (1950, Jean Genet)
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Assisting production:
Film assistant, Joseph Addison
Sound engineer, Ashley Green
General manager, Sebastien Bocos
Film stage, The Horse Hospital, London
Documentation: Max-louis Rougel
and Maëla Bescond