„ And what if the scene of the day was a film? And the film of the day was only a scene? It would be Central, a new sketch of a film and beautiful 10-minute postcard sent to us by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, an artist who has recently taken up residence in Hong Kong. Along the bay that borders the teeming city’ s raw concrete infrastructure, a young woman stands with her back to us „ like the black monolith of 2001“, as a voice tells us off camera. this graceful back will give birth to a small cosmogony. It will structure a world, give rise to other backs and anonymous individuals, all of whom are moving toward that horizon of skyscrapers that lies on the other shore. And what if that silhouette were nothing more than the azure of modernity? For Gonzalez-Foerster, a filmmaker who comes to the medium from her work in contemporary art, the simplest rule in film is also the most beautiful, that is, take the time to contemplate. Even better, contemplate that calm and gentle spectacle of contemplation, the contemplation for example, of a play of shadows like musical notes falling on a handrail, poetic signs of our modern solitude before the sea. And all those people turning their backs on us, what are they up to? In their way, they are looking at us.“( P. A. and J. M. L., Libération, 2000)
– Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 2003
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