Sidewalk

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

18 June 2013. Published by Benoît Labourdette.

1 min

A simple Parisian sidewalk. We go, we go, in daily life. But are we sure we’ve been there at that time ? Do we remember our presence to the world and to others, in the everyday moments... that become extraordinary if we take a look on them.

Technical

Multiplications, additions, subtractions of pixels on four layers on a paved surface bounded by poles, for visual work on the issue of human presence : some are black shadows that darken the scene by their passage, some holes light that illuminate the scene and others.

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