Pierrick & Jean-Loup font de la musique — Pierrick Sorin

If the medium is the message, then the logical conclusion is that changing the medium changes the message. In 1994, Pierrick Sorin made a series of four self-films narrating the story of a day spent at home with his brother Jean-Loup. In this one, as the music festival approaches, the two brothers decide to compose a piece of contemporary music, using all they can find as instruments. They end their day by imagining that they are on television in a cultural program that showers them with praise. 

I was interested to see how a video based on sound could evolve through an only visual format. I used blank space and a strong structure (sometimes disturbed) to relate the rhythm and nonsense of the film.

Later,  I showed the edition to people who hadn’t see the film and asked them to retell the story to me. Most of the time, the comments I received demonstrated that by looking at the images, people still understood it as a video, which could be something worth exploring further.

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