{"id":12044,"date":"2022-09-02T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/?post_type=oeuvre&p=12044"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:46:51","slug":"le-cercle-vide","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/oeuvre\/le-cercle-vide\/","title":{"rendered":"The empty sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The empty sphere<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

ST\u00c9PHANIE ROLAND<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nothing really survives here.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom is so deep that no light ever reaches it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very few boats go through.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unknown when the falls will take place.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This experimental documentary portrays a space object and its fall into the darkness of a space cemetery. A woman scientist reveals her attachment to this object and the absence of images documenting this mysterious place. As a reverse sci-fi journey, this essay mixes real and fictional archives to guide us, like a stalker, to the outskirts of an invisible place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general, a hero of Science Fiction leaves for somewhere else, another planet, a solar system, he moves away from the planet for many possible reasons. Here, we also explore unknown lands, but the movement is reversed, the space object returns to the earth, dives into the water and returns to the heart of the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same way, I wanted to make a journey into the materiality of cinema. We start with contemporary 4K Digital Cinema, typical of SF films, and then return to the archive, both real and fictional, in film. The abstract images were made with a homemade camera which mixes the properties of a sonar and an instrument to analyze exoplanets, linking here the ocean and space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority of SF’s protagonists are white Western men between the ages of 30 and 50. It is important to me that the only character here is a scientist woman in her fifties, an age and gender range that is underrepresented in science as well as in film representation in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 St\u00e9phanie Roland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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