Removing the refugee camp in the Austerlitz train Station

19 September 2015. Published by Benoît Labourdette.
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Reliefs and traces of human presence. Record the memory of places.

Shot in Paris, Austerlitz train station.

All the films in « Kaleidoscopes »

The kaleidoscope, a figure made up of mirrored replications of the same image, offers a very “organic” vision of things. Like a visual metaphor for cell division, it opens up a realm of perceptions and emotions far beyond the mere decoration it might at first appear to embody. This figure, very rare in films, has always questioned me, which is why I’ve been exploring it in film for a long time.

It’s been a nice surprise to see animated kaleidoscopes flourishing on screens over the last four or five years, in film and series credits in particular. I invite you to read the manifesto text on the practice of animated kaleidoscopes, which I wrote ten years ago, in 2014: « Thinking about moving kaleidoscope image ».