Video triptych installation + son (stereo). English. 11mn51sec. 2010.
Katharine(s) Hepburn(s) is(are) the sum of potential interlocutors (the community) transcended (and/or/then emancipated). K.H.s are potential sirens.
Cary Grant as a preacher. The preacher as the one who says what the community wants to hear.
The community as a template generating the preacher. (whether it is a cultural community, a religious community and/or a community that pro(im?)poses a model of social and sentimental behavior). C.G. as a preached.
The proposal is shaped as a baroque gradual-altarpiece trend 2010. A narrative audiovisual collage on three screens (containers), which raises love, religion and music as fluids bathing a communitarian transcendence. The proposal is presented as tautological, saturated, sometimes contradictory and often suspect. The duration articulates a crescendo until it reaches the white of the saturating signal (RGB:255-255-255 on a white noise).
The white boundary is not a climax, but the goal that the transcendent formulation gives to itself.
Mashing :
"Et Incarnatus est" Credo from the Grosse Messe in C minor (1782-1783) by W. A. Mozart.
St. John Chrysostome Liturgy (1910) by Sergey Rachmaninov.
Credo from The Glagolitic Mass (1926) by Leos Janacek.
Preacher Blues - Up Jumped The Devil (1930) by Robert Johnson.
Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. Georges Cukor.
Esther Williams in Water Ballet from Ziegfeld Follies (1946) dir. Vincente Minelli.
(Audio) Paris nous appartient (1958) dir. Jacques Rivette.
2001, a Space Odissey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick.
Son of a Preacher Man (1968) by Dusty Springfield.
Amen, Brother (Amen Break) (1969) by The Winstons.
Drowning in a Sea of Love (1971) by Joe Simon.
"Les Sirènes du port d'Alexandrie"- Alexandrie Alexandra (1978) by Claude François.
The Reflecting Pool (1979) dir. Bill Viola.
Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick.
Making A Splash (1984) dir. Peter Greenaway.
Splash (1984) dir. Ron Howard.
The Little Mermaid (1989) dir. Ron Clements & John Musker.
Like a Prayer (1989) by Madonna.
Hallelujah (1989) by Happy Mondays.
Baby of Macon (1993) dir. Peter Greenaway.
hajullelaH (1994) by Jeff Buckley.
Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron.
Believe (16B remix) (1997) by Gus Gus.
Frozen (1998) dir. Chris Cunningham.
Believe (1998) by Cher.
Mocha's verse from I Still Believe (1999) by Mariah Carey.
Down in the River to Pray (2000) by Soggy Bottom Boys.
The Cell (2000) dir. Tarsem Singh.
Baptized (2004) by Lenny Kravitz.
Believe (2005) by The Chemical Brothers.
Son of a Preacher Man (2006) by Deni Hines.
(Audio) Ne Touchez pas à la Hache (2007) dir. Jacques Rivette.
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) dir. Paul Greengrass.
The Power of Pain (2007) sermon by bishop Noel Jones.
Music is the New Religion (2008) by The Subs.
Baptism of Love (2009) sermon by Bobby Conner.
Baptism (2010) by Crystal Castles.
YouTube footages: Captures from Cornelius' liveshows by The Bloody Beetroots (2008-2010).
&
Liquid Love by Madonna (Unreleased Track).