First animation based on pictures: Temps Mort.
Monday 5 October 2009A “POM” is a “Petit Objet Multimedia”, understand: “small multimedia object”. Neither a slide, nor a video… something else between both. Wilfrid Estève, a french photographer, is the one who launched this kind of approach, with “Territoires de Fiction” (“Fictional Territories”). So, when I attended the EMI-CFD in the end of 2007, I quickly went to know I’d have to make one. Today, it’s done! A friend if mine edited the materials I gave her, a sound engineer got to fix the sound… and here we are. Any comments are welcome! While I’m already wondering about the next one…
December 2007: I’m entering a course in photojournalism at the EMI-CFD school. Among our “teachers” is Mat Jacob, from Tendance Floue. His course: “bring your guts on the table”. We all need to find a personal story to tell, whatever it might be made for, either press or an exhibition, maybe a “P.O.M.”…
I think about my grandfather’s death. Gone too soon, we didn’t have enough time to play Django Reinhardt’s “Nuages” in his entirety… Since then, despite her good mood, my grandmother feels quite lonely. She patiently waits for death to come. What’s happening in her head is really intriguing me… but how could I possibly portray the time that flies? Everywhere in the house, signs of my grandfather… nothing’s changed.
I come from time to time to Vigneulles, in Meuse (France), where hi-speed train goes, yet doesn’t stop. Her hips ache, she doesn’t go out too often. Weakened legs, bearing a blurry reality her eyes can’t quite accomodate… medicine for everything. She bears a remote as a medallion, to call an aid at the hospital… just in case. She rarely wears it. Too big… what’s the point, anyway?
She lives right in front of the cemetery. Slowly, days go by and look alike. She reads “Femme Actuelle”, goes deep into crossword, she drowse in front of some show in the TV, something like “Maestro”, a classical music one… My grandfather, once a jazzman, used to love it. What about him coming back for the late show?
Time flies. My grandma waits.
Editing: Cyrielle Thelot (with Valérie Derrien) / Sound mixing: Stephen Des Aulnois