Stéphane Marti
Marcel Mazé, les forces de l'ombre et la lumière
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Original format Super8
Year 2012
Artist(s) Marcel Mazé, Stéphane Marti
Running time 16 min
Films
LES FORCES DE L'OMBRE ET DE LA LUMIÈRE (2012) 16'
Description
"Les forces de l'ombre et de la lumière are armfuls of fleeting sensations assembled from five films I had the chance to shoot and share with Marcel Mazé, whose titles evoke mysterious worlds: Les métaphores d'Alex (1998), Le rituel de Fontainebleau (2000), Le veau d'or (2001), Mira corpora (2004) and Les amants rouges (2009). It's a portrait in shattered fragments where Marcel embodies different characters, like a mischievous dandy immersed in a profusion of reflections and erotic photographs, a bewitching photographer staging nonchalant beauties with the air of Sicilian shepherds, or even a dark angel, a romantic wanderer in the manner of Nosferatu performing cyclical rituals that celebrate Eros and Thanatos. Dark or luminous masks of his desires—and mine, in echo."
— Stéphane Marti