| Le Corso |
| Animation | HD | color | 14'0'' | France | 2008 |
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© Crédit © photo / bertrand DEZO
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At the beginning of this project, the artist sets out to make a rural video, without anthropomorphism, which was to be seen from an animal point of view. This posture is obviously useless (animals do not make video, even less 3D), and the film takes the form of a documentary with a herd of animals. The camera seems to be held by an amateur who tries to follow the rapid race of the impassive creatures. Their race is indistinct and the characters are borrowed from various species (cattle, cats, and insects). Despite everything, these animals seem to obey all kinds of rules, imitations and ritual clearly defined. Some of them return directly to a primitive intelligence (turning round in circles) or events related to the recent past (the disease of Creutzfeldt-Jakob).
Born in 1982 in Bayonne (France), Bertrand Dezoteux is a young Basque artist who repeatedly leaves his native country. He first moved to Angoulęme (2001 – 2003) to study the graphic novel. Then, in 2004, he learned the rigorous art of Korean Painting in Pusan. He finally got his diploma (DNSEP) in Strasbourg in 2006. There, he worked with the Bulgarian artist Plamen Dejanoff, who commissioned 5 collages. These pictures were exhibited in The MuMok of Vienna, then in the gallery La Chaufferie, in Strasbourg, where one of the collages mysteriously disappeared. Bertrand Dezoteux finished his studies in Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains. He currently continues to observe, as an amateur anthropologist, the behaviors of the homo digitalus.
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