Pierre Rovere
2021Red Light
Pierre Rovere
Like BLACK & LIGHT, this film is also made without a camera. The image is perforated directly by a computer into two opaque 16mm strips. But this time, an additional step has been taken at the printing stage: the two strips (printed in A&B rolls) are each filtered with a different color.
Red Light
Forward
Pierre Rovere
The filmed image is liberated from the shackles of representation of an external reality, becoming autonomous and spatial; the sound drifts and is regenerated by its asyncronous but nevertheless intimate relation to the image. Here, the sound is not reduced to the secondary role of accompanying the image. It constitutes the sensory experience just as much as does the image. Fast motion, slow motion, superimposition, reflection, colorization, filtering and synthetic composition: a combination of effects that produces a long audiovisual perspective within just one sequence.
Forward
Black and Light
Pierre Rovere
This film was directly produced on a diverted computer without the involvement of any film equipment. Originally, this film was not in black and white, but in absolute black and full light. Indeed, initially, the screenings were only made with originals in which absolute black was achieved through the use of a totally opaque tape, while absolute white was generated by computer perforation (thus allowing all the light to pass through without the slightest opacity of film material). This film is not the transcription of a movement, but a succession of constructed composite facts which the projection device translates for the eye into impression of movements. It does not refer to any external reality, but is meant to be its own reality.
Black and Light
Surfaces
Pierre Rovere
Surfaces speaks about continuity, it is a single rhythmic plane which is sustained by music. The best commentary on it is related to a phrase from Georges Petrix: What is the meaning of form, color, material? Why is it there? If it's only to make someone say "yes, isn't that pretty, isn't that nice?" then we're not interested. In truth, what it is an expression ourselves, our lives.
Surfaces
