L’œil, d’abord, glisserait sur la moquette grise d’un long corridor,
hout et étroit. Les mures seraient des placards de bis clair,
dont le ferrures de cuivre luiraient. […] Ce serait une salle de séjour,
longue de sept mitre eviro, large de trois.
A gauche, dans une sorte d’alcôve, un gros divan de cuir noir fatigué
serait flanqué de deux bibliothèques en meisier pâle ou des livres
s’entasserainent pêle-mêle. La vie serait facile, serait simple.
Toutes les obligations, tous les problèmes que la vie materiale
comporte trouveraient une solution évident.
Georges Perec, Les choses, 1965
Rooms. Things inside empty rooms.
Long, uncut tracking shots go through empty interiors, passing from a room to another as a continuous sequence.
Rooms are empty, but people are although there, their presence is concrete as they were just around the corner, in the other room, out of the frame.
We don’t know anything about the inhabitants, but things and places talk enough: this is home, this is the way we live.
concept ZimmerFrei
direction Anna de Manincor
photography and editing Anna de Manincor
sound design Massimo Carozzi
music Andrea Belfi, Massimo Carozzi, Stefano Pilia
duration 40 min
year 2008
format dvd-r PAL 16:9
audio format stereo
group exhibition:
May 9th – June 8th 2008
Junkbuilding
Triennale Bovisa, Milano
curated by Davide Giannella e Maria Chiara Piccioli
live performance:
September 25th 2008
Bestiario Festival
Roma
February 9 2009
MonkeyTown
Williamsburg, Brooklyn