Tentative de dressage d’une caméra. Tentative d’échapper à la surveillance d’une caméra

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“Is the camera docile? Come on, make the camera look good! Snapping his finger, Jacques Lizène tries to set up a camera. Lay down, the camera! Then, from one end of the screen to the other, the Little Master tries to escape the surveillance of this same camera. A work that is both filmic and performative, this sequence produced in 1971 is the third film by Jacques Lizène, after Traveling on a wall (I will not procreate) and Absence of filmed subject, and testifies to the beginnings of video art in Belgium. This work tames, between lucidity and clumsiness, this new medium entering the field of plastic arts, it is also of great political consciousness, bringing into play the domination of the media, submission to the dominant order, the discourse on voluntary servitude”. (Source: Jean-Michel Botquin)

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