Stéphanie Lagarde, Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up

Videonale.19, KunstMuseum Bonn, Germany Ⓒ David Ertl

About the video:
As an intelligent elevator discovers the world, we get to know the invisible links between extreme heights –the mega-tall tower, speculative object and symbol for social, cultural and economical domination– and extreme depths –the deep mine, place of natural wealth extraction and colonial exploitation. As doubts, fears and desires melt in the consciousness of the elevator, existence becomes a battle to justify itself.

15'44", color, sound, 2021.
 

About the artist :
Stéphanie Lagarde is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work focuses on the strategies used by living beings to maintain and/or challenge control over real and virtual territories through systems of signs and objects. She exhibited in venues such as EMST Athens, Greece; Plato Ostrava, Czech Republic; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Frei_raum Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Her videos have been shown in festivals such as IFFR (Rotterdam), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), BISFF (Beijing), Berlin Atonal, Videonale (Bonn), Transmediale (Berlin), EMAF (Osnabrück), DOKLeipzig, Kasseler Dokfest, NEMAF (Rep. of Korea), RIDM (Montreal), DocMX (Mexico), Vienna Shorts (Austria). She won the Best Film Award at BISFF Beijing in 2021, the New Discovery Award at FICBUEU, Spain and the National Award at Leiden Shorts 2022 for Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up; the Grand Prize at BIEFF 2019 (Bucharest) and the International Competition Award at Short Waves Festival 2019 (Poznan, Poland) for Déploiements. 

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Contact: 
lagardestephanie@gmail.com