Victoria Lukas

Spectrographies: Music from the Motion Picture by Smith

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• 01 The One That Doesn't Die
• 02 Youre Here Like Me, More Than Me
• 03 Like in a Dream
• 04 Your Desire for Her Ghost
• 05 Ghosts Look to the Future
• 06 Pascale
• 07 Assoie
• 08 Presences
• 09 Helene
• 10 Always Over
• 11 Nothing but a Trace

''During one long winter's night in a neon-lit Paris, a restless young man wanders around to let himself be found by something that most people otherwise try to avoid: ghosts. And the night is full of unexpected encounters in this ultra-chic film, which is neither documentary nor fiction, but rather an adaptation of the idea that Jacques Derrida defines in a guest star appearance on the cinema screen: that film plus psychoanalysis is equal to the science of ghosts - ie. a form of 'spectrography', which the French artist SMITH in her self-ironic, self-conscious, science-fiction essay of a film, conjures up with thermal infrared and in the dialogue's mosaic of quotes of rambling French philosophy, from Breton and Barthes to Merleau-Ponty and Derrida himself. Hyper-modern and rich in (retro) references