| The sun, our star, is filmed in an analogue format in order to superimpose two filmic shots creating a footage in which the sun appears to be accompanied by a second star, its double. The filming was done 'in blind', with a solar filter that renders the lenses and viewfinder dark. This hypothesis of having a solar system with two stars (what if?) questions the human social organization, it’s hierarchies. Le soleil et son double together with Prapadenia pamantului are responding eachother in a sort of incantation. The films are trying to ask these questions by refusing to speculate on the possibilities of a narrative and rather pointing to Antonin Artaud’s book Le theatre et son double and George Bataille idea of expenditure from La part maudite: "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." |
