Alexis De Raphelis
Disparaître - Film - 2014
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 16
Film
The visitor enters a dark room and sees the Temporium standing close to a screen. This sculpture houses an animated laboratory, a mix of mechanotronics and living cultures. From time to time this fully autonomous apparatus comes to life from an exchange of fluxes, captures and regulations, allowing the formation of a living image. The living image and projection on the screen come together in the same space-time. An interface enables their symbiosis. In real time it captures the formation of the living image, awakens the organs of the Temporium or adjusts the duration of the film sequences in response to the movement of the micro algae. There is a permanent back-and-forth motion, making each session a unique experience. The film follows the life of Hidetoshi, a debt-ridden forty-something drowning in his routine. One evening, he discovers a mysterious advertisement in his letter box: “We can help you disappear. Leave it all up to us. Total success guaranteed.” But to “disappear” means accomplishing the volcano ritual before starting a new life. At its summit, a true revelation will gradually lead him to his deepest destiny, his BECOMING-ALGA.
Alexis De Raphelis
Production
Acknowledgments
Nous remercions chaleureusement l’équipe du film et du Temporium : Kohshou Nanami, Daisuke Sekiguchi, Takeharu Tanaka, Ludivine Large-Bessette, Rémi Galibert, Raphaël Hénard, Juliette Alexandre, Raphaël Vandenbussche, Patrick Morin, Amiko Yagi-Paul, Masako Tomita, Andrea Pennisi, Corrado Spata, Claudio d’Aleo, Ezio Mongiovi, et Alexis Bacci-Leveillé. Adrien Bonnerot, Oulfa Chellai, Aubrey Clausse, Arnaud Gloaguen, Edgar Servera, Claude Perdigou et Fabrice Zuccarelli. Merci à Eric Prigent, Daniel Dobbels, Valérie Delhaye, Bertrand Lamarche, Amélie Dubois, Laurent Delplanque et Jacky Lautem. Merci à Samuel Bianchini, Thibaud Coradin, Henri Foucault et Claude Yéprémian. Ainsi qu’à Arnaud Catherine, Serge Foutrier-Bielakoff, Olivier Gade et Sebastien Gadenne.
Merci également à Claire Boitel, Nicole Garbin, Elisabeth Boisson, Riccardo Raimondo, Renaud Anglès, Atsushi Takenouchi, Hiroko Komiya, Hal Tanaka, Aya Soejima, Ema Kawanago, Aurélie Berland, Emmanuel Pettini et aux équipes techniques du Fresnoy, de L’EnsAD, du MNHN et de Supélec. Un immense merci à nos familles et amis pour leur soutien et leur générosité.
