Le Film des questions
Frank Smith, 2015
Video / performance, 47 min.
Le Film des questions is thus made up of a book and a film. The book says it is to be seen, the film shows that it is to be read. Le Film des questions interrogates the status of landscape by attempting to grasp, through its setting, a news item that leaves us powerless: in March 2009, a man murdered ten people before taking his own life, along a route running from Kinston to Geneva, in Alabama. Across a gap in time and place, Frank Smith reinvests this disarming event by questioning the living relations between facts, narrative, image and language. Frank Smith revisits, via Google Street View, the road travelled by the man that day, not without evoking the film AKA Serial Killer, in which Masao Adachi experiments with his “Theory of Landscape”, attempting to grasp, through it, the path of a serial killer.
SOLO SHOW LE FILM DES QUESTIONS
FESTIVAL HORS PISTES / CENTRE POMPIDOU
SATURDAY 24 JANUARY 2015 — 8 PM
For Hors Pistes, Frank Smith combines the screening of his film with a live musical reading of his book by the actors Garance Clavel and Adrien Michaux, to music by the composer Philippe Langlois.
The show is the moment of a transformation : a sign that the catastrophe can begin, begins, and will be carried through to its end, here or elsewhere.
Screenings
Pera Museum, Istanbul, 11 & 18 March 2015
Musée de la Chasse et de la nature, Vidéo for ever, Paris, 22 June 2015
La Panacée, Montpellier, 7 May 2015
Montévidéo, Marseille, 3 June 2015
Maison des Fougères, Paris 20th arrondissement, 10 July 2015
Festival Voix vives, Sète, 25 July 2015
Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, 10 October 2015
Hors Pistes Paris, January 2016
Hors Pistes Tokyo, June 2016