Les Immobiles, 2013
14 min 54 s, Fichier numérique (Apple ProRes 422 HQ), 16/9, couleur, son, français
In Les Immobiles (2013), presented notably at the Venice Biennale in 2017, Marie Voignier gives voice to a former French topographer and hunting guide who lived in Chad and Cameroon in the 1970s and 1980s. The setup is simple: the camera focuses on the book recounting his memories that the man flips through and comments on. A rare violence emerges from these images and this account, where the massacres of animals are carried out in the name of a leisure activity organized for wealthy Western clients. Irony naturally creeps in when the situation turns against these amateur hunters, who frequently perish during safaris. Through such unique point of view of this former hunting guide, Marie Voignier’s video reveals the dynamics of human, social, economic, and political domination at work in a postcolonial Africa.
Marcella Lista, 2019
Translation : Amy Wang
