MACULA

MACULA

CAROLE ARCEGA France / 2004 / 16mm / black & white / 16' Directed by Carole Arcega Interpretation / Carole Arcega Soundtrack / Sébastien Cros Photography / Sébastien Cros

The macula is commonly known as the yellow spot, located near the center of the retina at which visual perception is the most acute. A photosensitive body rises from shadow to burn out in light. Skin emulsion sensitive to this world, undergoing different plastic stages until its final fusion with the film. Washed out, scrubbed and scrapped, painted, dazzled, it is pushed to saturation in order to accomplish its very last cinematographic mutation. The body alters, taking a new form, inextricable from the filmic matter. The story of a mutation where no one could figure which turned into what, did the artist become the film material, the pellis, the peculla ? Or is it the other way around? Photosensitive being or alive filmic membrane?