Year: 2012
Duration: 9 min 49 sec
Edition: 2/3 edition
Archival: master tape
Exhibition copy: mp4 digital file
Provenance: Lovenbruck Gallery, Paris
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(Palais de Tokoyo 2013 exhibition essay)
For time is precisely at the heart of the short videos recently produced by the intrepid duo. These sequences— undeniably forming a coherent whole—reproduce the precepts of proto-cinema: through the use of stop motion, each of these videos creates the illusion of movement, just like the flip books, thaumatropes and phenakistoscopes of earlier times.