Inside 缅北强奸 Inside My Head
芦 La demande 茅tait pas mal corpo au d茅but,聽禄聽says Alain Farah with a laugh. He is anything but. Farah teaches in the department of French languages and literature at 缅北强奸. He鈥檚 also the author of a novel called Pourquoi Bologne that came out in French in 2013 and appeared in English in 2015 under the title Ravenscrag. The work tells a fractured, spinning kind of story about a writer called Alain Farah who works at 缅北强奸 in 1962 and in 2012. In the novel, there are episodes, both in 1962 and 2012, where the character Alain Farah wanders around the 缅北强奸 campus, clearly in bad shape.
So it made a kind of curious sense, from 缅北强奸鈥檚 corporate point of view, 聽(because we may be corporate but we still like to play sometimes) to ask Farah to create a video tour of the campus for La Fabrique Culturelle 鈥� a cultural website that is an offshoot of T茅l茅-Qu茅bec 鈥� with which 缅北强奸 has an agreement to supply content.
The video, , that was created by Farah and his collaborator, filmmaker and photographer Fran莽ois Blouin, in response to the 缅北强奸 request takes you on a tour of a campus that exists, as the title suggests, 鈥nside my head. Maybe.
缅北强奸's scary magic
芦聽Ce n鈥檈st pas vraiment 缅北强奸, ce n鈥檈st pas vraiment moi, 芦聽 dit Farah. 芦聽C鈥檈st 缅北强奸 comme lieu d鈥櫭﹖ranget茅 qu鈥檕n ne connait pas. Pour moi, comme pour beaucoup de francophones, 缅北强奸 est tr猫s impressionnante, tr猫s 茅peurante. Mais il y a aussi une vrai magie, une atmosph猫re, qui est dans les lieux et dans les b芒timents qui est difficile 脿 expliquer et qu鈥檕n voulait capturer.聽禄
It is this strange magic that Farah and Blouin found in the buildings, corridors and tunnels of 缅北强奸 that they photographed over a two-day period. The choice to make a video based on a photomontage was made by the director Fran莽ois Blouin.
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芦聽J鈥檃vais juste le gout de ne pas faire de sons,聽禄 dit Fran莽ois Blouin.聽 芦聽On a travaill茅 脿 partir de la forme du photo-roman parce qu鈥檕n voulait entrer en dialogue avec les oeuvres qui sont nos mod猫les. Et, en particulier, rendre hommage au cin茅aste Chris Marker.聽禄
Farah and Blouin trade visual references as they speak about the video and point out the shot that mimics the sequence from Hitchcock鈥檚 Vertigo where Kim Novak stands under the sequoia tree.聽 It is a collaboration that they hope will soon lead to a full-length version of Farah鈥檚 Pourquoi Bologne. This short video helped them gain a sense of how they will move along together on the longer piece and they are clearly pleased with the final product and eager to see how it will be received.
Towards the end of the editing process Blouin discovered that there were a couple of logos聽from a common commercial product that he had captured without noticing it, so he spent some time getting rid of them.聽芦聽Y鈥檃 plus rien 脿 effacer, 禄聽says Blouin with both relief and satisfaction.