Country: USA-Mexico
Format: 16mm
Duration: Loop
Black and white
Silent
2008
Synopsis:
This project consists of looped black leader with the phrase “Ceci n’est pas le present” (This is not the present) scratched on every frame of the film as a reference to René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (1929) and Yoko Ono’s This is Not Here (1971). It is a comment on the idea of time in general as well as in film itself by making us think of the past in the frames that went by, the future in the frames that will come, and the never-obtainable present in the projected frame on the screen.
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