Kendra McLaughlin

La plage aux êtres - Film - 20min - 2021

presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 23

As her team digitises the traces of an unidentified creature, a palaeontologist mourns a loved one. A meditation on preservation, daughter of discovery and mother of loss.

Kendra McLaughlin


Kendra McLaughlin works with moving images to explore memory, attachment to place, and ethics of representation and care. Her works frequently dialogue between non-fiction and fiction, between inquiry and emotion. She holds a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard, masters degrees in Arts & Politics (SPEAP) and in Human Rights from Sciences Po, and is a graduate of Le Fresnoy, France’s national contemporary arts studio. Raised between Canada and Thailand, she is currently based in France.

Production


Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing

Partners

Archeovision — Conservatoire Virt.Os (Virtothèque ostéologique) — Laboratoire PACEA

Credits


› Image : Kendra McLaughlin
› Création 3d : Guangli Liu
› Montage image : Kendra McLaughlin, Yuyan Wang
› Sound design : Tristan Soreau
› Bruitage : Felipe Esparza
› Mixage : Yannick Delmaire
› Étalonnage : Baptiste Évrard
› Accompagnement artistique : Laure Prouvost