The artist imitates a succession of profile pictures of Facebook users in a reflection on the social networking site as a breeding ground for narcissism. With its audio track evolving from bomb sounds to entertaining J-pop, the piece evokes an evolution from harsh reality to denial.
Also in this combined programme
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One Eye Open
A search for the artist’s roots as he travels to Japan and investigates a world that is partly foreign and fascinating, partly familiar. -
Master-Slave Dialectic
Who is the boss? The director, thinking and self-assured or the camera, a mindless machine? A power struggle with unexpected results. -
Adam
A young man navigates through the cityscapes of contemporary Cairo with its contrasting crowds and finds himself out of place and struggling to be hea -
E.D.L.
A video portrait of Lebanon’s national electricity building as an homage to a modernist project, linked to the very construction of Lebanon’s modern s
Film details
- Countries of production
- France, Lebanon
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- DVD