Cartes postales video

France, 1984-1988

Artwork

The conventions and style of the postcard’s photographic moment are transformed by movement and sound in this exquisite collection of thirty-second video postcards. Time worn images fade in, only to be suddenly and momentarily released with a gesture, a punctuating sound - and then frozen again. Witty and often poignant, these revealing documents of time, place and memory capture a fleeting, ephemeral reality. We are invited into a narrative of what the artist calls ‘thirty seconds worth of dreams’. Produced in Paris, New York, Rome, Quebec, Iceland, Lisbon, Cairo, Algiers, and other sites around the world, these video postcards form fragments a perceptual voyage by way of the subtle magic of a temporal trompe l’oeil.

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

Previously on display

17 July 2005

ACMI Screen Gallery

Credits

creator

Robert Cahen

Duration

01:03:57:00

Production places
France
Production dates
1984-1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1000087

Language

Unknown

Audience classification

unclassified

Subject category

Digital Art

Colour

Colour

Object Types

Artwork

Materials

Single channel moving image

Holdings

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

VHS [PAL]; Copy

DVD [PAL]; Exhibition Copy

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

CD ROM; Master

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