vidéo 4/3 monobande, 7mn, 2002

Originally, these were photographs taken in a London hotel. This intuitive capture seemed to give rise to a fiction, a twin fiction.

"An interesting essay in suspense made on the basis of only a few images, mostly photographs. The sounds suggest a situation of growing tension, the voice over which begins and doses the video points to violence and blackmail, while what we actually see is a woman in a bathroom and the reflection in the mirror of a man lurking menacingly in the darkness behind her. The grain of the photographs is digitally zoomed to appear like the surface of a painting - indeed the final frame, when the woman turns around and screams, clearly refers to Caravaggio's Head of the Medusa, in a close web of visual quotations and symbolic references. The video benefits from excellent editing, perfectly paced, with a backdrop of sound that builds up the sensation of claustrophobia and entrapment, while the few exterior shots are all nocturnal, again in heavy grain : a lighted window in the night through which the viewer, powerless to intervene, must watch voyeuristically an act of violence."

Romano Fattorossi, Invideo 2002, Mutations