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The White House

David Claerbout | Belgium | 2006 | 690' | | IFFR 2007

Lasting over thirteen hours, Claerbout’s film shows two men engaged in a discussion against the back-drop of a neoclassical house in southern France. An act of violence is repeated and re-enacted more than seventy times over the course of the film. Dissolving the boundaries between photography and film, Claerbout’s work puts into question the reassuring stillness of photography and the inevitable narrative progress of the cinematic image.
Courtesy of the artist and Micheline Szwacjer Antwerp.

Film details

Country of production
Belgium
Year
2006
Festival edition
IFFR 2007
Length
690"
Medium/Format
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