First Contact
( sixth part of the MEGALOPOLIS project )
First Contact
2020 | video . photogrammetry | 3 minutes 19 seconds
directed by Benjamin Bardou | music by Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes / Thomas Köner
2020 | video . photogrammetry | 3 minutes 19 seconds
directed by Benjamin Bardou | music by Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes / Thomas Köner
First Contact is a sensory immersion into the Paris metro, perceived not as a mere place of transit but as a mental space saturated with presences.
Bodies are brushed against, thoughts are grazed as they pass through.
Passengers dissolve into point clouds, fragile silhouettes traversed by the invisible flow of their consciousness.
Everything unfolds in the instant: the present is a blinding light, made of information, of fragments of lives that intersect without ever fully meeting.
The film captures this density of the urban moment, where each face, each glance brushes past and vanishes at once into the current of data and memory.
« We live in the oblivion of our metamorphosis...
But that echo that rolls around all day long...
This echo out of time of anguish or caresses
Are we near or far from our consciousness... »
P. Eluard
« We live in the oblivion of our metamorphosis...
But that echo that rolls around all day long...
This echo out of time of anguish or caresses
Are we near or far from our consciousness... »
P. Eluard
Journey into the blinding light of the present moment.
« I was melting with this city, I was the foliage of trees, the reflections of rain on the sidewalks, the buzzing of voices, a dust among the millions of dust in the streets. »
P. Modiano
« I was melting with this city, I was the foliage of trees, the reflections of rain on the sidewalks, the buzzing of voices, a dust among the millions of dust in the streets. »
P. Modiano
What is the MEGALOPOLIS project ?
Contact benjaminbardou@gmail.com
Contact benjaminbardou@gmail.com
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