Avec le Silo, nous avions montré Western DDR (2004), le film que Marie Voignier a consacré à un centre de vacances converti en parc d’attraction en Allemagne. Mélancolique, comme si la faillite du parc avait déteint sur l’entreprise même d’en …

Rebekah Rutkoff specialises in experimental cinema. She has written on Robert Beavers and Gregory Markopoulos. She is also an artist and writes fiction. She has just published The Irresponsible Magician. Essays and Fictions with Sémiotext(e). Clara Schulmann 1. In her …

I am indebted to Anaïs Farine for my encounter with Basma Alsharif. She had come to present her film The Story of Milk and Honey (2011) at INHA, in a programme that Anaïs had punningly dubbed “Contes à rebours au …

I met Stephanie Wuertz very recently in New York. We walked around the Met together. She showed me one of the museum’s recent acquisitions, a huge fresco by Thomas Hart Benton, America Today, a portrait of the United States in …

I got in touch with Quinn Latimer (1978) in July 2014, when the CRAC in Alsace was putting on one of her performances, “O Labor, Sister Continent,” in collaboration with Megan Rooney. The text took as its starting point Jean-Pierre …

I discovered the work of Adelita Husni-Bey (1985) thanks to Vdrome, which showed her film Postcards from the Desert Island (2011). I was greatly impressed by the film. It was shot in Paris, at the École Vitruve, which offers children …

Here Rosa Barba (1972) talks about one of her films, A Private Tableaux (2010), which we projected with the Silo a few years ago. The film was shot in the tunnel across the Mersey in Liverpool. On the gallery ceilings, …

As she points out in her answers, the work of Elizabeth McAlpine (1973) is sculptural. The names Tacita Dean and Anthony McCall feature among her references. While they allow an emphasis on the importance of film installed in the exhibition …

Je me souviens d’avoir écouté les textes de Marcelline Delbecq (n. 1977) il y a quelques années, quand nous suivions ensemble une formation à l’université. Sa voix surtout m’a beaucoup marquée. Quand je lis ce qu’elle écrit aujourd’hui, je m’aperçois que …

J’avais assisté à une performance de Louise Hervé et Chloé Maillet (1981) dans le jardin des Tuileries. Plus tard, un workshop à l’école supérieure d’art de Bordeaux nous a réunies quelques jours d’affilée. Il s’agissait de les faire intervenir auprès …