"soyez heureux"

video and sound live performance
super8 found footage and manipulated sound

in collaboration with Liana Luna for Matière en mouvement at Les Grands Voisins, Paris, 2017

an audiovisual collage exploring the ethnographic relations between super8 found footage and repurposed sounds. the action proposed a displacement of the semiotic data (visual images and sound) by mixing and overlapping those elements out of their contexts.

we were interested in the premise that sound and editing are for ethnography a tool that facilitates and directs perception of sensitive forms.

the juxtaposition and live editing of different footage from white European families in two different rituals (a wedding and a vacation trip to Morocco) and the mantra-like sounds allowed for a constant flow of meaning and stimulated interplay with spectator's judgements and preconceptions.

"soyez heureux" is a title that appeared in one of the found footages.