Event Horizon, screenshots, video, 9 min 30, 2024
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“Event Horizon” recounts the message sent by beings from the future to a fictitious civilization. Their voices speak of a vanished civilization whose traces we are looking at, but which strangely enough, far from being fictional, turns out to be our own. At least, the ideas of a fantasized future that we like to imagine. That we project for our own civilization.
The film evokes this civilization, bearing the traces of elements that make up our contemporaneity today: the International Bremen Core Repository (MARUM), where cores from all over the world are stored, enabling us to model the future of our planet; the Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP), where the first exoplanets were discovered - planets that could enable us to discover life elsewhere; fields of wind turbines - those technologies supposed to remedy our energy problems, but which already embody, through their difficult recycling and insufficient electricity production, a form of fantasized future that is already being eroded.
This civilization is disturbing, reminding us of our own fantasies, contradicted by our current reality. The film traces this idea of the observer being observed, of us watching and being watched in return…