Video

Lettre à un amant

1988, 10:00 minutes, colour, French, with English subtitles

TAPECODE 9344

Lettre à un amant is the final chapter of Marc Paradis' video trilogy. In short, it deals with a couple's break-up. It is both a letter and a reflection, and it concerns giving of one's self, sharing and exchanging. It is also a response to the other person's flight, the absence, the void. The images attempt to replace the fear and silence.
A need sublimated in the exacerbation of pleasure conveyed by images and sounds,
Lettre à un amant is a masterful conclusion to the series. At the same time, it poses several questions about the dichotomous love-image paradox present in love.
This work also refers to an earlier work by Marc Paradis,
La cage, because of its erotic homosexual content and its many electronic applications. Richard Anger's original score was composed to emphasize the dramatic aspect while several processes proper to the video medium serve to peg the images in an aesthetic approach.

Dernier volet du tryptique,
la Lettre à un amant a été écrite par Sylvain Ladouceur. Le thème abordé ici est la rupture d'un couple.
Lettre-réflexion sur le don, le partage et l'échange, en réponse à la fuite de l'autre, à son absence, au silence laissé derrière lui. Au-delà de la peur et du mutisme, des images s'appliquent à combler le vide.
Manque sublimé dans l'exacerbation du plaisir des images et du son,
Lettre à un amant clôt magistralement la série, tout en ouvrant la voie à un questionnement sur le paradoxe dichotomique amour-images de l'amour.
La dernière oeuvre de cette série fait aussi écho à l'oeuvre antérieure,
La cage, par son contenu érotique homosexuel et ses jeux sur le signal électronique. Ainsi, Richard Angers a composé une musique originale afin d'induire la montée dramatique. Par ailleurs, divers procédés propres au medium inscrivent les images dans une démarche esthétique spécifique.

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