SOMETHING FISHY

by Philippe LEONARD

2009 / Mini DV / n&b / son / 4' 37

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This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2010 digitization plan. The total length of the film is available online. The full movie is viewable in our documentation center.

Something Fishy is the encounter between the traditional fishing practice immortalized in the awakening of direct cinema by Pierre Perrault in Pour la suite du monde, and analog photography. By the juxtaposition of images of these two practices endangered, using overlays deficient, excessive and clumsy, picture paused, the concrete gestuals caused by the body of the fisherman and the filmmaker come together in their relationship to the material by the changes they incur in their respective environments (ocean / light and shadow). The visual dialogue between these two figures proposing the rehabilitation of the object and image, image-living display, developed in the darkroom and re-exposed then projected through the intermediate symbolic return to nature.

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distribution format	Mini DV (PAL)
original format	16 mm
speed	25 ips
screen	4/3 (vidéo)
sound	son Stéréo
rental fee	16,00 €