This clip was made for the stylists Marithé and François Girbaud. It projects and unites several types of art and performance media; flowing successively through painting, dance, Baudelaire's text and street theatre. The body, as a sensitive surface, is shown through several techniques. The undulating walking movement glides into slow motion, is decomposed and repeated. The image splits then shatters, pulled endlessly towards its symmetrical double: positive/negative, front/back, soaring/plunging. The movement of the street is superimposed on the fashion model's ideal body; Goya's haunting nightmares on the designer's sketch. "What use is the décor if it doesn't hold the image? Poetically, the human translator can only submit and yield to this obsession," declares the filmmaker in voice off.

Stéphanie Moisdon