donderdag 29 maart 2012

Silent world

Fotografen Lucie & Simon hebben een mooie serie gemaakt met 'verlaten' steden. En in een (inmiddels bekroond) 7 minutendurend filmpje gevat: 'Silent world'.
Ik vind de beelden fascinerend. Die leegte. Die stilte. Magisch realistisch.

#apocalyptischkippenvel

Doet me denken aan de film I am Legend (waarvan het boek trouwens beter is) met die uitgestorven straten. En aan 'De brief' van Carel Willink.

O ja, en wat een prachtige muziek. Vooral vanaf 05.00 min.


Prachtig vind ik ook de toelichting op de site van Lucie & Simon op de fotoserie. Vertalen zou zonde zijn; ik zou het nooit zo poëtisch kunnen verwoorden.

"The silence of the world, like a quotation, is suddenly endowed with an oppressive eloquence. Small intrusions are the true sparks here, because their disconcerting presence disrupts the majestic calm of the streets and squares. Are the latter guilty or victims? The fate that governs these shots in a tangible way is not the result of decisions taken by metaphysical powers, but stems uniquely from the imagination of the two creators of these photos, Lucie & Simon.

Although they consciously and intelligently stage the principle of the “déjà-vu”, they nevertheless brilliantly include observers in their game and transform them into co-creators of their images. They undermine the idea that the photographic image is a duplicate of the visible world or a “language without code” (Roland Barhtes), an image that is at least « natural » at the moment of its creation. They endow their photographs with an abundance of unsettling codes, of the most diverse persuasions and origins, particularly those arising from other images. However, these codes don’t focus the images. They serve instead to incite observers to fill them with language of their own experience and their own imagination."


Silent world from Lucie & Simon on Vimeo.

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