LE CRISTALLIN

CAROLE ARCEGA France / 2002 / 16mm / colors / 7' Directed by Carole Arcega Soundtrack / Franck Rochard

Le Cristallin is a film in which one forgets the photography of cinema to find oneself in its film strip, where the film is a living organ. The film is about the pastimes of bad gods, the Others, those below. In the beginning, bubbles remain stuck in mucus, from Serrano to trans-lucid cow blood. Then everything comes to life, just as with microscopes in biology class, when we are asked to draw cells and amoebas. Then there are bones, crocodiles, cemeteries of the Innocent, the punishment of craving monks, sodomites and the perjured in a tiny hell lit by phosphor. It's the era of wood gatherers, witches, the Renaissance. The cow's mucus has hardened; spider's spit has formed long soft strings.