FILM

In Retour d’un repère, the procedure of separating and extracting certain aspects of a scene by adjusting the focus of a series of frames in succession according to various organisational patterns, is developed in a particular way. While the filmic operations are structured in relation to a limited space (a branch over a duck pond), the filmic process rests on a visual transformation of a ‘pantoun’, a verse form borrowed from literary rhetorics, which characteristically transforms itself gradually and continuously in a precise manner.