A very long exposure time

video, 06:55, 2020

This video is a meditation on the respective temporalities of different image technologies. Inventing a poetic path through images created with Louis Daguerre’s centuries-old photographic device, 16mm film cameras, pixelated video games consoles, early smartphones and contemporary computer interfaces, the work asks: what aspects of reality have these different technologies been designed to document? What phenomenon, either too slow or too fast to be recorded, have escaped their capture? Are there still dimensions of our experience on Earth that have never been visually documented, and for which photographic technologies are yet to be invented?

Chloé Galibert-Laîné (FR)

Chloé Galibert-Laîné is a French researcher and filmmaker. She is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Lucerne School of Art and Design – HSLU in Switzerland. She regularly teaches theory classes and artistic workshops about film and media. Her works take different forms (texts, films, video installations and live performances) and explore the intersections between cinema and online media. She is particularly interested in questions related to modes of spectatorship, gestures of appropriation, processes of knowledge production and mediated memory.