FILM

Floating through a hallucinatory night the viewer encounters a damaged cast of Rodin’s iconic bronze sculpture The Thinker, Hollywood Juniper trees swaying as if in a trance, fireworks bursting into life above Berlin’s 1936 Olympic stadium and finally a German oak tree planted by four-time Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. In this historical-associative web Gaillard enhances the sculptural texture of the seductive 3D cinematography by looping a 9 second sample of Alton Ellis’ Blackman’s Word and later on Black Man’s Pride, which he both remixed to create a spatial feel.