Travel(Ing) | LEFFEST - Lisboa Film Festival

A three minute video-installation shot on 16 mm film, Travel(ing) confronts the reality of an experience with its cinematographic representation. In the middle of the night, on the back of a moving truck, a 16 mm film showing a daytime view of the same road the truck is driving on is projected. The fragile and wavering film image draws the viewer’s eye like a moth to light, and uses mise en abyme to depict the hypnotic power of moving images.

Duration: 3
Production year: 2005
Country: France
Subtitles: Subtitles: English

Clément Cogitore

Young master of the visual arts, Clément Cogitore dominates the fusion of film, photography and experimental video-art. Exploring the idea of collective memory, his work questions our relationship with our own images and representations by bringing to life the intersection of cinematic expression with forms of contemporary art. Among numerous distinctions, Cogitore saw his first feature film Neither heaven nor earth (2015) selected to be screened at the International Critics' Week in Cannes, received the prestigious Marcel Duchamp award in 2018 and has had his work exhibited in venues such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and MoMA in New York. His latest film, Goute d'Or, was present at the Cannes 2022 Festival.