Gregory Chatonsky's blog

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Production: AgenceTopo / Sylvie Parent
The woman: Mélissa Gagné
The man: Vincent Charlebois

http://incident.net/works/circulation

* In a city, cars roll, stop, slow down. There are accidents and
road work. In this city, there is a man and a woman who have never met,
who will fall in love, will separate, will find each other again. They
speak endlessly of what should continue and what should end. What they
say is the exact translation of traffic flow.

A software recovers Yahoo RSS feeds that follow the flow of traffic
in different cities. The information is fragmented and analyzed based
on a list of keywords derived from 7424 video sequences. This creates a
montage that reflects the real state of circulation.

Inspired by J.G. Ballard, Circulation elaborates a parallel between
lover’s discourse and the flow of cars, because this has changed our
notions of intimacy and our imagination. Everything happens as if the
dialogue between man and woman were becoming permeable to a series of
outside events, following a counter-intuitive hypersensitivity. The
unpredictable fluctuations of a meeting, of love, of separation, and of
sadness, are products of an arbitrary translation. The dialogue between
lovers is never-ending and variable, it escapes coherence because
traffic circulation never ends.

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