Video

Imaginary Landscapes

Jane Wright

1991, 22:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English

TAPECODE 006.49

Memories of China expose the limits of experience, and provoke an examination of reality and illusion.
The traveller gazes at the expected; Mao's portrait, the Great Wall, and smiling workers. She photographs the foreign in long shot, and tries to summarize the experience tv-style. She peers out the window, projecting onto what's there. But the landscape has its own stories. The real strains for release.
What we see is illusion. It is through dreams that we can glimpse reality.

Le voyaguer contemple le déjà connu: un portrait de Mao, la Grande Muraille, les travailleurs souriants. Elle filme de long plans de l'inconnu; elle décrit la scène et tente de résumer l'expérience dans un style reportage T.V. Elle interroge l'extérieur en se superposant à la réalité.
Le paysage a ses histoires et ses réalités qui rechignent à se laisser connaître. Ce que nous voyons n'est peut-être qu'illusion, ou image incomplète.

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