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“Toute la mémoire du monde-The world’s knowledge”
35 mm film transferred onto DVD double projection, 2 loops à 7:30
min., Edition 12, 2006
“Toute la mémoire du monde-Magazin”,object, 260 x
360 cm, size variable, wood, acrylic, 2006
“Toute la mémoire du monde- BNF I-IV” 4 colour prints
on Alu-Dibond, 124 x 150 cm, framed,
Edition 3, 2006 |
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Nina
Fischer / Maroan el Sani
Toute la mémoire du monde
The world’s knowledge
Photo / Video double projection
„There are indications of a time, when all riddles will be solved,
a time, when this universe and others will deliver their keys. And this
is simply because their readers, who are facing a piece of universal knowledge,
will bit by bit find fragments of the same secret, that has a very beautiful
name and calls itself felicity.“ (in Alain Resnais movie „Toute
la mémoire du monde“, 1956)
The old Bibliothèque Nationale de France in the centre of Paris
is currently vacant in major parts. The 11 floors of the stockroom and
a capacious reading room are left unexploited.
In 1956 this library was the setting for a movie of Alain Resnais, the
director of “Hiroshima mon amour” and „L‘ année
dernière à Marienbad“. In his 20 minute documentary
“Toute la mémoire du monde” Alain Resnais shows how
the library functions as a storehouse of the world’s knowledge;
how, on an ordinary day books, magazines, plans and other treasures arrive,
get catalogued and find their way into the archives, to be thus available
for the reader in the reading room, who, as he says, internalises a part
of the universal knowledge by reading and thus receives a “key”.
50 years later: We find the location vacated. An apocalyptic scenery.
The knowledge has vanished. The pictures of the empty reading room and
the empty stockroom immediately imply the loss of that “key”,
the gateway to knowledge.
Analogous to the movie by Alain Resnais we filmed the location using slow
tracking shots. In a double projection thousands of stocking room shelves
without books flash by and in the reading room the camera merely captures
a handful of young people, whiling away their time. Amongst the waiting
people the withdrawal of knowledge provokes first signs of resentment,
first signs of rebellion.
Crew:
Actors: Dinah bird, Elsa Chausson, Erwan David, Jean Christophe Lucchesi,
Keity Anjoure
Script, Direction: Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani / Camera: Jean-Marc Bouzou
/ Camera Assistant: Emma Fernadez / 2nd Camera Assistant: Sophian Djouadi
/ Stage: Richard de Vadder / Photography: Albrecht Albrecht Kunkel / Make-up:
Isis Fouquet / Cut: Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani / Music: Patrick Catani
/ Production: Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig/Berlin, Fischer/el Sani, Berlin
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