THE CROSSING premieres as a video installation through Avis de Passage, 34E Festival Les Instants Vidéo at Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, November 10, 2021 – February 13, 2022
The festival is described as enlivened by a trio of passion:
mad love (to desire, to burn, to experiment)
poetry (to do, to expose, to dare)
revolution (to imagine, to transform, to get free, to put aside our fears)
THE CROSSING is dedicated to all those no longer at liberty to struggle
THE CROSSING stares at the instability of freedom, the fragility of democracy, the precarity of revolutionary spirit and the vulnerability of memory.
THE CROSSING is transfixed by what cannot be held. It stares as shadow and substance flutter, as democracy and revolution waver, as freedom fades and blackened lamps inhale spirits for a spell.
Night and morning seep. The confines of memory do not hold.
THE CROSSING is witness to what cannot be borne. It gazes at sentinels on street lights, as power arcs and dies, to where saddles straddle traffic lights and wired speakers hang. Twisted strings numb the air with the decay of a minor chord. Fumes of desperation still ignite.
THE CROSSING 2021, HD Video, 11:47