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Jimmy Robert, Consensus Rouge Noir (BRISTOL)

4 May 2012 – 17 Jun 2012

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Opening Times: Thursday - Sunday, 1.00pm-6.00pm

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FREE

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Bristol, United Kingdom

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Picture This is pleased to present French artist Jimmy Robert's new film consensus rouge noir (Bristol). Produced and presented by Picture This, the film follows the final performance of consensus rouge noir, which took place at the Picture This Studio in March. Previously Robert had screened the silent 16mm film with a live voiceover, either read by him or another performer. For the final version performed this way Robert incorporated an open discussion with the audience about the themes of the project and the work's trajectory towards a "finished" film. This discussion was recorded by a stenographer and led to a reworking of the script. A recording was then made from the new script, in a sound studio, with the voices of Robert himself, and sound artist Ain Bailey. The film features a montage of found footage mixed together with images shot by the artist on Super-8, and transferred to 16mm. The voiceovers, which also contain appropriated material - borrowed phrases - muse over the various ways one finds meaning or fulfilment at a distance from, or when close to, an object. Over images of a man gesturing in front of the Jef Lambeaux marble relief in the Temple des passions humaines, Brussels, Robert quietly intones, "This city is not pleasant but one has to give it a chance, just like its men". And later Bailey cuts in, "Marguerite Duras once said that one had to see film as a representation of knowledge... for her cinema had to disappear". The two voices and the assembled images pursue different trains of thought, occasionally intersecting in surprising ways. The opening shots, for example, which show mist rising in a Japanese garden, are intercut with images of an explosion in a forest, whilst the voiceover alludes to the situationists' "desire for reality". The seemingly random conjunction of voice and image, connecting with the thoughts of a now departed audience providing a kind of meta-commentary, produce a film that seems as open and alive to possibility as does a live performance. In addition to consensus rouge noir (Bristol) Picture This is presenting the exhibition, Under the Influence: Marguerite Duras and Jimmy Robert in its Video Shop. Alongside a number of book works and one audio work by Robert, two films by Duras will be shown on a monitor, Césarée and Les Mains Négatives (both 1979).

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