A small Mediterranean peninsula in the south of France, with a long and rich history. The cliffs and stones are the tenacious witnesses of multiple occupations and activities, but also of the disasters that have wiped them out. Time flies and here comes the present. On the peninsula, we are the direct witnesses of a new misfortune. With the means at hand (a small camera), we try to save what remains to be saved.
text and images by: Jan Peeters
with fragments from:
Herodotos, Historiën, vertaald uit het Grieks door dr. Onne Damsté, Houten, De Haan, negende druk, 1987.
Charles H. Lagrand, Un habitat côtier de l'Age du Fer à l'Arquet, à la Couronne (Bouches-du-Rhône), in: Gallia, tome 17, fascicule 1, 1959.
www.maritima.info
Guy de Maupassant, Adonis. Bel-Ami, vertaald uit het Frans door Hans van Cuijlenborg, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2004.
A. Tardieu, Géographie de Strabon, 1867, IV, 1, 6.
year of production: 2024 (4th version, single screen with new footage and a new chapter - the 1st version for two screens dates from 2017)
country of production: France/Belgium
language: Dutch/French/English
format: Full HD video
aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.77:1)
colour: colour
sound: silent/stereo
runtime: 20 min 49 s (4th version, end titles included), 14 min 20 s (1st version)
with fragments from:
Herodotos, Historiën, vertaald uit het Grieks door dr. Onne Damsté, Houten, De Haan, negende druk, 1987.
Charles H. Lagrand, Un habitat côtier de l'Age du Fer à l'Arquet, à la Couronne (Bouches-du-Rhône), in: Gallia, tome 17, fascicule 1, 1959.
www.maritima.info
Guy de Maupassant, Adonis. Bel-Ami, vertaald uit het Frans door Hans van Cuijlenborg, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2004.
A. Tardieu, Géographie de Strabon, 1867, IV, 1, 6.
year of production: 2024 (4th version, single screen with new footage and a new chapter - the 1st version for two screens dates from 2017)
country of production: France/Belgium
language: Dutch/French/English
format: Full HD video
aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.77:1)
colour: colour
sound: silent/stereo
runtime: 20 min 49 s (4th version, end titles included), 14 min 20 s (1st version)
screenings/publications
Hinken op twee gedachten — Dany Deprez en Co., duo exhibition, 14 May 2017, NUCLEO BLANCO Coupure, Ghent, Belgium. 1st version shown as installation with two screens.
Hinken op twee gedachten — Dany Deprez en Co., duo exhibition, 14 May 2017, NUCLEO BLANCO Coupure, Ghent, Belgium. 1st version shown as installation with two screens.
Afland, group exhibition, 13-30 July 2018, Library Kris Lambert, Ostend, Belgium. 1st version shown as installation with two screens.
Place Magazine, n° 1, Janvier 2019: online publication of the 3rd version in French of La Pointe Noire.
Traces, a gradual an tentative research exhibition at blanco, group exhibition organised by Sébastien Conard and Jasper Delbecke from the research cluster Art, Imagination & Language (LUCA School of Arts), 23 September - 6 October 2024, Blanco, Coupure, Ghent, Belgium. 4th version in Dutch and English on single screen.
