Elsa Brès
Love Canal - Film - 18min - 2017
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition panorama 19
Film
300 million years ago, the North of France was a swamp.
130 years ago, a canal was dug but was never filled with water.
One day, a group of vagabonds go down an invisible river and collect the debris of a world (stones, objects, 3D prints) with which to create another.
Landscapes clash, pieces meld together.
Deep in the water, carcasses roar.
And at night, a new landscape comes to life.
Elsa Brès
Elsa Brès is an architect. She graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture (ENSA) Paris Belleville. She also trained at the University of Montreal and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (Paris). Her work in film, video, drawing and photography forms part of an experimental project on the perception and measure of surrounding contemporary landscapes, particularly the exploration of where matter and time meet. She has taught architecture theory at ENSA Paris Belleville. Her films have notably been shown at the CENTQUATRE (Paris), the Forum des Images (Paris) and at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris).
