Robert Cahen
Entrevoir
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Add rightsFormat DVD9 PAL Interzone
Original format Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, video
Year 1973-2021
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Robert Cahen
Livret 44 pages (français, anglais)
Running time 179 min
Films
IMAGE DU CARNAVAL DE BÂLE (1973) 22'
KARIE (1976) 8'
ARRÊT SUR MARCHE (1979) 8'
L'ENTR'APERÇU (1981) 9'
ARTMATIC (1981) 4'
JUSTE LE TEMPS (1983) 13'
LE DEUXIÈME JOUR (1988) 8'
HONG KONG SONG (1989) 21'
SOLO (1989) 4'
CORPS FLOTTANTS (1997) 13'
L'ETREINTE (2003) 9'
SEPT VISIONS FUGITIVES (1995) 32'
VOYAGES D'HIVER (1993) 18'
SIGN (2021) 10'
Description
Robert Cahen is a video artist, filmmaker, and trained composer. A major figure in the field of video creation, emerging from the borders between the arts, he is a pioneer in the use of electronic instruments. Robert Cahen's work is recognizable by his way of treating slow motion, exploring sound in relation to image to construct his poetic universe. He multiplies the effects of sliding, alteration of movement, contraction and dilation of time—processes that allow him to explore the metaphor of passage, the memory of images that come and go, to question the passage of time.
"Taking time. Giving time. This is the movement generated by Robert Cahen's films, which transport the viewer into the half-seen, the half-heard, into the in-between images, into the wink, into the blink of an eye or a heartbeat. Time is the substance, the very fabric of the work: at the intersection of several art forms—music, electroacoustic, film, photography, video—the filmmaker explores infinite border crossings. The rhythm of time: its progression, its pauses, its movements, its speeds. And the circumvention of the 'non-time' he examines: he repositions time in space, the multitude of temporal dimensions within us, he transforms image events into invisible events. He makes room for dreams, memories, fantasies, blindness, oblivion, nothingness."
— Mireille Calle-Gruber