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“Altogether” (2008)<br />

DVD, mini DV, black & white / color, 15’, original English version<br />

an Auguste Orts production coproduced by z33, desire productions<br />

with the support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund & Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie<br />

with Fairuz (camera), Boris Debackere (sound), Els Viaene (sound<br />

recording), Danai Anesiadou (performance) and Sofie Benoot (production)<br />

original music by David Shea<br />

„Viitorul e întunecat şi cred că, în ansamblu, acesta este<br />

cel mai bun mod în care ni-l putem imagina.” Pornind de<br />

la această observaţie, lucrarea “Altogether” recunoaşte în<br />

întregime impasul ideologic al erei post-68. Prezenţa simbolică<br />

a steagurilor şi a clădirilor istorice, precum şi menţinerea<br />

capitalelor (naţionale) ca atare a devenit discutabilă. Proiectate<br />

într-un viitor (apropiat), ele apar în cea mai nesigură lumină,<br />

iar limbajul cinematografic subliniază acest lucru: fragmentat<br />

şi asociativ, filmat alb-negru, proiectul redă schiţe ale peisajului<br />

urban, unele dintre ele înregistrate în mişcare cu o cameră de<br />

telefon, în timpul unei plimbări cu maşina prin Bruxelles. Dar<br />

ceea ce vedem de fapt este abstracţia difuză a unui oraş care<br />

dă senzaţia unui spaţiu negativ, al cărui caracter virtual nu se<br />

mai regăseşte în subtitrare, ci în imaginea însăşi. Nu există un<br />

discurs, există doar sunet. Avansând spre punctul culminant,<br />

filmul conduce la prăbuşirea vizibilului, lăsând privitorul „blocat”<br />

în interiorul situaţiei curente: pe deplin conştient de viitorul<br />

(incert) ce se apropie, neştiind dacă va putea avea vreo putere<br />

asupra acestuia.<br />

Auguste Orts/Herman Asselberghs<br />

“On the whole, the future is dark, which is the best thing the<br />

future can be, I think.” With this observation as a startingpoint,<br />

“Altogether” fully acknowledges the ideological<br />

impasse of the post 68-era. The symbolic presence of flags<br />

and historical buildings and of maintaining (national) capitals<br />

as such has become arguable. Projected into the (near) future,<br />

they appear in a most uncertain light, and the cinematographic<br />

language underlines this: fragmented and associative, shot<br />

in black and white, the video shows sketchy images of urban<br />

scenery, some of them shot with a moving cell-phone camera<br />

on a car ride through Brussels. But what we actually see is a<br />

shadowy abstraction of a city which gives the impression of<br />

a negative space whose virtual character is no longer theorized<br />

using a voice-over, but can be found in the image itself.<br />

There is no speech, only sound. Approaching its climax, the<br />

film advances towards the collapse of the visible, leaving the<br />

viewer “locked in” inside the current situation: fully aware of<br />

the (uncertain) future to come, wondering whether he or she<br />

will be capable of exerting any influence on it.<br />

Auguste Orts/Herman Asselberghs<br />

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