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Alice in my head
20/01/15 – 18h30 – Free entrance
at ENSACF – Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand (ENSACF) 71 Cote Blatin – Clermont Ferrand
On January 20th, in partnership with ENSACF, VIDEOFORMES presents a two-part event with the artist Alice Fargier: a screening followed by a performance entitled “Alice in my head” at the National School of Architecture. The performance will be followed by a moment of exchange with the artist.
Alice is filming herself. But who is Alice? A character straight out of Lewis Caroll’s novel or the artist herself? Whatever the case, they have in common the dreaming, a great faculty to extract themselves from the world to better apprehend and think it. Alice works in an open-space and finds her mind as a ground of freedom. She pursues her mental and inter-spatial journeys wherever she is: a contemporary art gallery, her artist’s residence, a forest, the subway, her bed etc… And soon before your eyes in flesh and blood… for a collective mental journey.
Alice Fargier is French-Swiss After two years in the literary preparatory classes hypokhâgne and khâgne, she enters the film department of the University of Paris 8 Vincennes: the freedom of the place and the international climate inspire her short film for her master’s degree: Deux visages. She explores the question of intimacy through the story of an encounter between a child, the son of an erotic writer, and a young Mexican woman lost in Paris. She then collaborated with the director Srinath Samarasinghe in the writing of his feature film script Un nuage dans un verre d’eau (Avenue B productions) and did the making of it. She also worked as an assistant director on feature films by Asian filmmakers who came to Paris to shoot: Hong Sang Soo (Night and Day) and Tsai Ming Liang (Faces). Then she joined La Maison de la Radio and began a work of sound creations for France Culture: Alma voit les sons (Les Passagers de la Nuit), Nasim, ou le désir en mouvement (L’Atelier de la Création), Esprit libre, portrait d’une génération de cinéastes (Sur les docks). She has also produced videos at the frontier of fiction and essay: Alice dans ma tête (Prix VIDEOFORMES 2013) and Entre les cours de Jean-Henri, in homage to the filmmaker Jean-Henri Roger. Le mur et l’eau, his first short documentary film, has been selected in many prestigious international festivals (Visions du réel, Karlovy vary, IDFA etc…).
Currently in residence, financed by the DRAC of Auvergne and the Region of Auvergne, and supported by VIDEOFORMES at the Germaine Tillion high school in Thiers, she explores the question of portraiture and self-portraiture by giving a sequel to Alice dans ma tête.