ART CITIES:Paris-Clément Cogitore

Clément Cogitore is a French filmmaker and contemporary artist. His first work “Neither Heaven Nor Earth”, premiered at Critics’ Week in Cannes and was nominated for the César Award for Best First Feature and was selected for this year’s New Directors/New Films festival at the Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Palais de Tokyo Archive

Clément Cogitore has developed a practice on the borderline between cinema and contemporary art. Marrying storytelling and experimental screenshot techniques, his work mingling films, videos, installations and photographs has been shown at international film festivals but also at is institutions. After Clément Cogitore’s movie, “Ni le ciel ni la terre” and his video “Un Archipel”, Clément Cogitore is pursuing his exploration of the rational and legendary reverberation of ungraspable phenomena with his video installation “L’intervalle de résonance”, at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The starting point of the video installation is based on two unexplained phenomena having physical origins: the supposed perception of sounds emitted by the Northern Lights, and the appearance of a mysterious luminous object in Alaska. In both cases, superstitions and the Inuit and Saami belief systems have disturbed the quest for scientific explanations. Through the images and stories produced by these phenomena, a tale is set midway. Stratospheric images, reflected on the ground, are melded with dispersion in the darkened space of a polyglot voice and celestial music, composed by Francesco Filidei and Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch.

Info: Curator: Daria de Beauvais, Palais de Tokyo, 13 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris, Duration: 11/7-11/9/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Mon 12:00-24:00, www.palaisdetokyo.com