World Skin, a Safari Photo in the Land of War by Maurice Benayoun and Jean-Baptiste Barrière :: Opening: April 15, 2008; 6:00 pm :: Nemo Festival, La Bellevilloise, Paris.

Armed with cameras, we are making our way through a three-dimensional space. The landscape before our eyes is scarred by war-demolished buildings, armed men, tanks and artillery, piles of rubble, the wounded and the maimed. This arrangement of photographs and news pictures from different zones and theaters of war depicts a universe filled with mute violence. The audio reproduces the sound of a world in which to breathe is to suffer. Special effects? Hardly. We, the visitors, feel as though our presence could disturb this chaotic equilibrium, but it is precisely our intervention that stirs up the pain. We are taking pictures; and here, photography is a weapon of erasure. More >>

Némo 2008 - Le festival incontournable de tous les Amateurs d’expérimentations audiovisuelles et de nouvelles images, en partenariat avec Le Cube, centre de création numérique (Issy-les-Moulineaux), le festival Elektra (Montréal) et le magazine Repérages. Entrée libre :: April 10 - 20, 2008.