Leaning, Leaning : In the space of the former chapel of Greylight Projects (Brussels) two types of images are screened, both related to the hymn Leaning on the Everlasting Arms written in 1887 by Anthony J. Showalter and Elisha Hoffman, and used especially in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter (1955). The intervention is a proposal made at the invitation of commissioner Septembre Tiberghien. It stages the theme of collective abandonment and inner momentum, while documenting the filmic appearances of a landmark in American culture. Leaning, Leaning is like a silent found footage film that shows, through a hundred slides, faces captured in full flight, singing all the same words, between sensuality and petrified violence. Each projected on one of the two faces of the screen, images and fragments of text are carried by the triggering sound of the projectors. Invited to walk on both sides of the screen, the viewer has the opportunity to reconstruct, between words and frozen faces, the film that spreads in space.
Directed by Gwendal Satre, Gilles Ribero and Noé Grenier.
Gwendal Sartre, filmmaker and artist, works from different narrative forms essentially through images. From the ties that weave between women and men, he draws layers of archaic stories as if they were already molded in forms. His work has been presented at the FID in Marseille, FNC in Montreal and at the FIAF Institute in New York. Trained at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille, joined Le Fresnoy, national workshop, in 2014.
Catharsis Projection is a Collective of Filmmakers and Artists who collaborate of create films, film screening and exhibitions. https://catharsis-projection.com/
