| La terre du milieu |
| Doc. experimental | dv | color | 28'0'' | Argentina / Francia | 2005 |
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Living between two lands: the native land and the host land. Belonging to both and feeling attached to both shores. Torn apart between the two and placed right in the middle, neither completely brought in by one nor fully adopted by the other. The installation "la terre du milieu" explores such a position through a boat ride that crosses the Mediterranean from Tunis to Marseille. This all-day journey turns into a genuine moment of both physical and psychological abandon, letting cracks of the present appear, through which images from the future and the past come intermingling. Paulina and Andrès Jaschek both emigrated to Marseille. With this installation, they aim to recapture the intimate relationships that immigrants have with their native and host lands. Throughout the journey, some passengers lead us through their experiences and their impressions. As they wander throughout the boat's decks, they also wander back in their imaginations through the areas of their lives in Marseille and Tunis.
Pauliina Salminen was born in 1975 in Finland. After studying at the Ecole d'Art et de Communication of Turku, she moved to Marseille where she received a master's degree in cinema. From then on, she directed documentary films ("Les étoiles du vendredi soir" in 2002, "Miminor" in 2003, and "Baignades" in 2004) that aired on television and were shown in various festivals. She contributed to multidisciplinary creations as a video-artist (Art Cup in 2002, TV uh in 2003). In 2004, she created the interactive video installation "Just Add Water," which was exhibited in Marseille, Montpellier, and Helsinski, and with which she participated in the Biennal of young European and Mediteranean creators in Naples, 2005.
Andrès Jaschek was born in 1977 in Argentina. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of La Plata. He went on to pursue his art studies in France and received a BA in cinema studies at the Université de Provence. After completing his studies, he switched from video installations ("Pornographie sentimentale," 2002) and documentary films ("Reconstructing Saint-Charles," 2003, "Nudités," 2004). He contributed to European documentary creation programs including Journeyman, 2002 and Réel en chantier, 2003-2004, where he pursued various projects. His films have been shown in specialized festivals in France, Argentina, Italy, and Spain.
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