Hoy me voy al infinito
No hay confines, términos, límites o murallas que nos roben y sustraigan la infinita cantidad de las cosas. De allí que la tierra y su mar sean fecundos; de allí que el brillo del sol sea perpetuo y suministre eternamente alimento a los voraces fuegos y líquido a los disminuidos mares, porque del infinito vuelven a nacer siempre nuevas cantidades de materia. De manera que mejor lo entendieron Demócrito y Epicuro, quienes pretenden que todo se renueva y se recompone al infinito, que quien se esfuerza por salvar la permanencia del universo eterno, para que el mismo número suceda siempre al mismo número y las mismas partes se transformen siempre en las mismas
AB/CD/CD: On Hold
The Parisian Video Collective's New Short Visualizes Factory Floor's Hypnotic Synth Loops
An endless staircase, smashing plates and slapped faces coalesce into an exploration of repetition and narrative in French filmmakers AB/CD/CD's On Hold. Inspired by Michael Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance—in which the main character plays ping-pong against a machine that is throwing balls to him in a never ending loop—AB/CD/CD's Arnaud Boutin, Clement Dozier and Camille Dauteuille devised a series of repetitious sequences and scenarios to shoot over a couple of weekends. Set to English experimental electronic act Factory Floor's "Real Love", the resultant scenes play off the track's polyrhythms to generate a hypnotic tension. "When you listen carefully to Factory Floor, you can detect that it's live, it's not only a cold sequencer playing, it's organic," explains Clement. "They are actually playing that track as the actors are re-doing their movements." The band were taken with the way On Hold's collage of unrelated loops played with narrative, explains Factory Floor guitarist and vocalist Nik Void: "It's not far from how our music works, it gives space in the viewer's own mind to imagine and conclude what the context is about." Having made videos for the likes of Lily Allen, Uffie and Josephine de la Baume's Singtank, AB/CD/CD are currently wrapping up films for New York concept-store-turned-brand Opening Ceremony.
