The Definition of a Thing in Itself
Synopsis
The temple of the cinema Luxor, built in Paris in 1921, was transformed into discotheque, then neglected. A conducted tour of the site redraws the plan of the temple of Luxor since the papers of the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. The film-maker Luc Moullet crosses the ruins of the nightclub Megatown in Luxor. Spatiotemporal, semantic and visual correspondences question the applied methods of application, in a set which is only a photographic reconstruction of the site.
Credits
Director (1)
Actor (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Full credits (5)
- Editor : Antonia Carrara
- Sound Recordist : Sébastien Cabour
- Production Manager : Jacky Lautem
- Sound Editor : Nicolas Verhaeghe
- Sound Mixer : Nicolas Verhaeghe
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - Experimental, Horror
- Themes : Architecture, Mountains, Philosophy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 8 min 30 seconds
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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