Le soleil et son double /Soarele si dublul sau

Le soleil et son double, film, 4'51", 2014
The sun, our star, is filmed in an analog format to superimpose two shots, creating footage in which the sun appears accompanied by a second star — its double. The filming was done “in blind,” using a solar filter that renders the lenses and viewfinder almost completely dark. This hypothetical scenario — a solar system with two stars — questions human social organization and its hierarchies. Le Soleil et son Double and Prapadenia Pamantului respond to each other in a kind of incantation. The films explore these questions not by constructing a narrative, but by invoking ideas from Antonin Artaud (Le Theatre et son Double) and Georges Bataille (La Part Maudite), particularly Bataille’s concept of expenditure: "I will begin with a basic fact: The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life, the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g. organism); if the system can no longer grow, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically."

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