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Irit Batsry «These Are Not my Images (neither there nor here)» | Video stills
Irit Batsry, «These Are Not my Images (neither there nor here)», 2000
Video stills | © Irit Batsry
 


 
 

Categories: Video

Keywords: Documentation | Geography | East/West | Travel


France | 80' | Concept: Irit Batsry | Director: Irit Batsry | Camera: Irit Batsry | Sound: Martin Hurtubise, Laurent Desalemand | Music: Stuart Jones | Participants: Kaleem Janjua, Renu Setna, Irit Batsry (voices) | Schnitt: Irit Batsry | Edition / Production: Irit Batsry; Academy of Media Arts, Cologne; Arte (Thierry Garrel) With support from: DAP, French Ministry of Culture; New York State Council on the Arts; The Experimental TV Center, Owego: Central St Martins College of Arts; Grand Canal
 

 Irit Batsry
«These Are Not my Images (neither there nor here)»

»These Are Not My Images (neither there nor here)« interweaves elements of different genres (documentary, essay, experimental, narrative) in order to question the way we see and show reality. The tape follows the voyage of a disillusioned Western filmmaker, accompanied by a half-blind guide and her encounter with a local filmmaker in a skewed «road movie» set in the near future. It evokes the different meanings of ‹place›: a location, a territory, a context, a situation, and a home. It speaks of being at your own place and being (at the place of) another, about identity and alterity, intimacy and distance, about the relationship between the ‹first› and the ‹third.› Images and sounds were recorded in Tamil Nadu.
The images refer to different modes of image-making (painting, photography, film and video). They alternate from ‹documentary› to ‹painterly images› created through digital and analog processing.