This self-filmed video shows a female reader moving to the rhythm of the turning pages of a book titled Exercises de français  (French language exercises). The movement of  her body is illogical and nonsensical – it resides in the strange in-between space of wanting to read and being in language.  This video is constructed upon a short loop extracted from a high-8 tape which was then expanded through repetition and experimental editing techniques.

Credits

Director/ videographer : Micheline Durocher
Camera :  micheline durocher
Editing :  micheline durocher, yuri berger, monique moumblow
Sound : micheline durocher
Performed by: micheline durocher
Format : filmed in High 8 transferred to DVD
Year: 2004
Length: 3 min. 30 sec.

Screenings of “Syncope”

2007 LadyFest, Toronto, Canada

2007 Flashflood, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

2006 “Prescription” and “diagnosticians’, Headcheese Sandwich., Forest City Gallery, London, Canada.
2006 SWGC Art Gallery, contemporary film and Video festival, Memorial University, sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NL, Canada, 2006
2005 “Pixel Dance Video Festival”, Thalassa, Greece
2005 “Bedrooms, Rooftops, and Sidewalks” , a Public Film Screening, Montreal, Canada
2005 ‘Motion, Feminist Film Festival, ( ) ette Collective, Lethbridge, Canada

Internet:

312 on Screen, http://www.312.ca , February and March 2006.