Rome by Night. Experimental film. 5.12 min. Black & White. Stereo Sound. United Kingdom. 2008
Director & Producer: Nadine Poulain. Más Media Production Kft.
Music: Coy Paez
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SYNOPSIS
Accompanied by an evocative piano suite by Argentinean composer Coy Paez, a strangely familiar landscape, resembling the universe, unfolds. Having been shot solely on the human body, the film Rome by Night seeks vastness in the closest detail, the infinite in the finite.
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NATURE IN THE ABSTRACT – NADINE POULAIN’S VISUAL WORLDS (excerpt)
Works such as Rome by Night from 2008, (…), deal with the rendering of bodily forms in lines and details, in order to open up their own visual space for them. Attention is dedicated to contingencies and the tiniest deviations in this visual space, just as to the fleeting and microscopic. A concentration on what was invisible to the eye until now occurs, so that room is provided for a space of imagining which was previously inconceivable, since it makes the heretofore non-visible visible; a game therefore, with the limits of visibility. To the extent that the primacy of visibility, namely the depicting of a concrete, readable state, is pushed back in favour of the representation of fleetingness, which is provided with the possibility of becoming visible.