Annabelle Amoros
Area 51, Nevada, USA - Film - 15min - 2017
presented as part of the exhibition panorama 19
Area 51, Nevada, USA is a film that explores the surroundings of Area 51 in the United States, in the Nevada desert. This military zone is heavily guarded, protected and under surveillance by the American army. No one can access it, not even planes or satellites, which are forbidden to fly over it. To prevent any intrusion, this zone has been enlarged by integrating the mountains that surround it; they form a natural border impossible to cross. We can nevertheless occasionally see strange and unusual lights escape from it, and also hear the sound of distant explosions.
These clues, familiar to the local inhabitants, but strange for tourists, lead us to believe that secret activities take place there. Whether they are experiments related to military technology or an extra-terrestrial presence, the area’s activities and the impossibility of seeing and knowing what goes on allows the collective imagination to succumb to myriad fantasies.
This film keeps its distance from any witness accounts or hypotheses and invites spectators to visit a space in which they hear strange, offscreen noises. We also come across characters who have witnessed an event we know nothing about and which we never stop trying to find.
Annabelle Amoros
After studying at art school in Metz, Annabelle Amoros took courses at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles from 2011 to 2014 and at Aalto University in Helsinki in 2012. She completed her training at Le Fresnoy in 2018.
Her work has been shown in several renowned photography and video festivals, including Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, Visions du Réel in Nyon, etc.
Her video Sur la Route entered the FRAC Alsace collection in 2016.
