Sandra Van-bremeersch
Born in 1972 in Toulouse (France). Lives in Paris.

"Inspired from the collective
imagination fuelled by media
and cinema, my work creates a
breach in the part of our collective
history that seems to have become an "acquired sensibility".
Distorted and put to the service
of my own universe, the sensitive
markings of global culture are
sublimed in totally different place.
Dismantled, bordering on the
anecdotic, they acquire a new
dramatic value. In this way, from
myths to trivia and vice-versa, I attempt to reach an inner turmoil
by unstitching a system of references without ever breaking it. (...) My work lies with the difference of appreciation, the risk taken by the images. Images can distort any reference, almost turning it back into what it actually was before it became a reference. What was its authenticity, its sensitivity then ?" S. V.

Philomène
Colour video, stereo, 4 min, 2002
Digital sound mixing from the Gilda soundtrack (French translation).

Running for no reason, the same old story. From one place to another, the same narrative emphasises the singularity of each space : the space of art or cinema, of a star (Gilda) or a stranger, of air (the terrace) or of water (the swimming-pool). Philomène is a continuous, ever-changing story, a near-poetic triviality. The ordinary epic of an ordinary heroine.

Pearl
Colour video, 2 min, 2000. Music : The Night of the Hunter

Never
Colour video, 3 min 55, 2001. Music : extracts from a Nobukazu Takemura song.

Paroles
Colour video, 5 min, 2000. Soundtrack : "Les paroles" by Dalida and Alain Delon.

How to re-appropriate what has already been digested by global culture. This video demonstrates the radicalism of amateurs when confronted with the possibilities of contemporary video technology. An fragile equilibrium between the grotesque and the poetic, the simple and the technical.
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