SURVIE TRANSE PERCE

by Mythia KOLESAR
1974 / Super 8mm / color / sound / 1S / 31' 46




"SURVIE TRANSE PERCE was dedicated to the Cuban artist Hessie, whose work consisted in embroidering on large unbleached canvases, with threads of colors, geometric drawings, repeated with obstinacy. I went to her house, in the countryside, on the edge of a lake, in her mill surrounded by meadows, and here is the scenario: I filmed her lying in a narrow black boat on the grass; she sewed herself into this boat, the wire crossed from one side to the other to bind herself. The image generated a fantastic effect.

The idea was that embroidery, a highly feminine activity since Antiquity and the Middle Ages, is accomplished on the woman's own body...

SURVIVAL TRANCE, the English title of this film, screened in a New York gallery, participated in debates on the process of women's creation: the invitation card attests to this. Other projections took place at the National Museum for Modern Art in the Centre Pompidou."

– Mythia Kolesar, "Transe Perce Survie", in Environnement Mythia : du profond intérieur, Nogent-sur-Marne, Maison Nationale des Artistes, 2012, p. 50-52.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
version English version
screen 4/3 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
translation French (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 122,00 €

distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
version French version
screen 4/3 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
translation English (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 122,00 €