Cyprien Gaillard: Memory, nostalgia, and anachronism

[Music] you [Music] it is a kind of electronic uprights it's two things it's a concert and it's a screening of my films and in the end it's a collaboration we made together hoodlum is a former opera singer and he will have this idea and tropic music and called him his style music electro pickle at the time I was also very interested in the idea of an Akron ISM as an answer to nostalgia because of my work is also this trying to fight nostalgia yeah this is how we got along you know trying the same IDs well things business keep our young focuses on modernist architecture has been shot in so many different places I was in Belgrade pubs in st. Petersburg parts in France parts in Ukraine honest missions favorite quote was actually from Nabokov saying that the future is the obsolete in Reverse and I think these buildings stand for that become something quite medieval about these modern age structures and the film is going I guess back in time showing first this fight in st. Petersburg that for me recalls like 18th century battlefield paintings of battlefield [Music] recent history can only be found on site this is the reason why I spent most of my time outside trying to confront myself as much as I can when in the landscape I'm interested in [Music] and the second part shows a modernist building outside Paris about to be demolished to make it up to the people who live there the mayor decided to make a sound enlightening just prior demolitions and sound and lightnings never happen in France outside of a classical monument circle which is castles essentially [Music] I've witnessed over 30 demolitions in the past five years usually I just go there because like I think it's an amazing thing to see it because it's a very Machiavelli in a way daddy that is so spectacular in the end that even people that were against demolition of this buildings find themselves so overwhelmed by by the spectacle of the falling of this building that in the end the last image that remember is this building falling and the third part is shot in Ukraine and Disney Ohio which gave the title to the film basically filming over a suburb outside Kiev and ends up on this composition of buildings that for me you remind me of Stonehenge so you have gradually something going back in times to like the 18th century classical' problematics of paintings ruins and also the idea of 18th century gardens and part of bruins and all the way to like a classical archaeological sites and just Stonehenge [Music] making the music for the film with coulomb was like the longest thing we kind of shared the same IDs him as a musician me as a visual artist I wanted this first part of the movie to recall the soundtracks that Philip Glass made for Koyaanisqatsi which is a small reference for this film the biggest part we wanted together to have a kind of National Geographic music he made the music like it was used to illustrate documentary and a stick pyramids or a mastic or Mayan pyramids but obviously all made on synthesizers so it created this kind of an electronic situation where he was trying to find out what is what could a stick society be today some parts I've shot some ports I've found I don't have a problem with appropriating video footage some of the footage was found on site and that's also very important for me I always ask myself before working is it worth it it's not because I'm lazy but it's because like I try to find out what's the eastery of this site and most of the time the spices don't have since it's a very recent history you cannot have to go there and find out for yourself [Applause] you