Waterproof

Waterproof

Production country: 
fr
Year: 
1986
Duration: 
23'
Edition: 
1992
Format: 
film/video
"Waterproof" by Jean-Louis Le Tacon, scan from the VideoFest ‘92 program booklet.

The swimming-pool can be a cosmos of its own, where the laws of gravity are not valid, where up and down is reversed, and where life has become the reflection of reality. The camera, having overcome gravity itself, captures the water-beings in their bright blue world. Yet as the video unfolds, this world closes-in, and it seems impossible to free oneself from the reflections that turn into slave-like representations of swimmers. It makes sense that “.Halber-Mensch” (Half-a-Human) by the German rockgroup Einstürzende Neubauten is part of the soundtrack.

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