On Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th December 2010, Courtisane takes part in an exhibit in Ghent (Halvemaanstraat 62, Sint-Amandsberg) called POLAR EXPOSITION, featuring work by (mostly Ghent based) painters, photographers and graphic artists.  We'll screen 'Parallax' by Inger Lise Hansen ... 

In Parallax, the Norwegian artist Inger Lise Hansen tips the camera by 180 degrees, sending it on a journey through a spooky landscape where Heaven and Earth seemed to have switched places.

She uses a series of tracking shots across the broad, empty flat roof of a department store in the city of Linz, past the open industrial architecture there, past mysterious shafts and passageways, metal frameworks and extended systems of piping. The movement is an illusion, just like the elimination of gravity. All eight tracking shots, which constitute the visual portion of this work, were filmed as single images, using the technique of stop motion as in animation films.

Hansen produces a kind of automatic cinema in which familiar temporal processes no longer apply. The clouds move past much too quickly in the lower portion of the picture, a few blades of grass tremble in fast motion, and weak sunlight flickers briefly over the ground like a faulty electrical connection. Even the snow falling upward seems to stop when the camera comes to a halt, subject to a mysterious kind of manipulation. Parallax simulates a denatured world in which even the complex soundtrack soon leaves its distant confusion of voices behind to enter soundscapes that no one can access.

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