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Sacred Braizers

Cinema Installations IV / V

This project aims at giving a personal interpretation of what fire can mean in modern society. A circular structure recalls the small braziers usually set under round tables that had a specific place for it underneath and around which the whole family gathered for heat. They symbolized a cozy atmosphere, but could be very dangerous caused burnsm fire in the tableclothes...

 

The video installation images do not belong to the daily life of most viewrs, they are part of our inmediate society, in which our domestic, every enviroment usually hides, in too many cases, a secret violence, scarcely noticeable until it explodes.

 

FILM SELECTED 

Benny´s Video (Michael Haneke, 1998)

Le Sang des Bêtes (George Franju, 1949)

Salo o le Centoventi Giornate di Sodoma (Pier Paolo Pasolino, 1975)