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A film produced, written and directed by Pablo Sigg

2010 / 45 min. / Colour / Flemish - English - German / Mexico - Switzerland - Belgium
 
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The first time I saw The Exorcist of William Friedkin, I was particularly impressed by the scene where the possessed girl is hypnotised, opens her eyes in front of the camera and sees without seeing. Hypnosis stimulates a cerebral projection that blinds the real (organic) vision and replaces it with a mental vision. Henri Bergson thought that cinema is just this, a mechanical illusion, a deception of the eye that somehow blinds the mind. The continuous filmed sequence where the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans under hypnotic suggestion randomly sees (with his eyes « wide shut », as Kubrick would put it) the images that his gaze has fabricated over the years (in 45 minutes Tuymans sees and names 134 of his paintings), and, in a double visual gap, directs his inverted gaze towards the camera, is an almost graphic way of posing this paradox where the perception of the cinematographic image takes place: seeing without seeing; perceiving images without movement in movement, images without time in time. Bergson's objection is valid and perhaps to see films is to see something (potentially everything) and also to see nothing. Mechanical phantoms, Bergson would think; electronic ghosts, we would say today.

Selection of presentations:
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, 2010
LTD Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, 2011
Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City, 2012
SBC galerie d'art contemporain, Montreal, 2015
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2024

Links:
ARTFORUM >> https://www.artforum.com/events/pablo-sigg-195788/
ARTREVIEW >> https://artreview.com/66-futures-greats-pablo-sigg/
MOUSSE MAGAZINE >> https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/pablo-sigg-at-ltd-los-angeles/