SACRÉ BLEU
DV, 08:52, 2010
Narrative potential quickly becomes music in sacré bleu. It's holy constipation instead of catharsis - a pairing of the crass with the sublime (nature with god), the awkward with the seductive - as a means of contemplating the continuity and fluidity between them. It ends as it begins (essentially going nowhere), and though it is loaded with symbolism, there are rises in intensity and what appear at times to be characters and motivations - it never reaches climax. As a myth of a culture of fiction, it is unabashedly dependent upon the viewer to author its meaning.
Starring: Diane Gaidry, Neil Garvey & Linda Stein.
sacré bleu is the second of the four videos that comprise The Dnipro Shorts.
The Dnipro Shorts are the conceptual offspring of the Bridge Project, an International Art Initiative created by Richard Foreman (Once Every Day) & Sophie Haviland. As with “Total Theater,” of which it is born, the total film of the absurd seeks to make the methods behind its madness plainly visible by negotiating a state of clumsy continuity where the invisible world hidden behind concave glass borders is heard, seen and even felt.
The Buffalo Bridge Project and The Dnipro Shorts were generously funded by the Center for the Moving Image, & the Liberace Foundation and the Morris Arts Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo.
Monologues written and directed by:
Richard Foreman and Sophie Haviland
Full Project Cast:
Dana Block, Sarah Brown, Ryan Cupello, Olivier Delrieu-Schulze, Diane Gaidry, Neil Garvey, Paul Hern, Hanna Lipkind, Abby Marianetti, Paul Martin, Amanda McDowall, Roy Roussel, Linda Stein, & R.J. Voltz
Full Project Crew:
Max Bernstein (Light Design), Danielle Boris (Video Editor), Elliot Caplan (Project Developer), Justin Chouinard (Camera Operator), Liz Chow (Photographer), Olivier Delrieu-Schulze (Assistant Director), Aaron Ferguson (Props Manager), Liz Flyntz (Assistant Director), Tim Gera (Camera operator), Isaac Johnson (locations manager), Kerri Kieser (Project Manager), Josh Parkins (Video Editor), Bob Pasquini (Light Design), Scott Ries (Sound Design), Anna Scime (Camera Operator & Props Manager), Loren Sonnenberg, Leslie Walker (Project Coordinator & locations manager), Brett Williams (Camera Operator), Yuichiro Yamada (Camera Operator) & Ryan Zlomek (Sound Design)