ARCHIVES 2011 / La Dispersion du fils

At the centre of an immersive device, a circular screen permitting a 360° projection, the spectator-visitors of La Dispersion du fils are invited to an amazing three-dimensional experience that gathers, in a complex combination of images and sounds, 22,000 sequences of some 750 films produced since 1999 by the LFKs collective. A space that permits the evocation of the myth of Actaeon, the hero transformed into a stag by Diana, then eaten by his own hunting dogs, who would not rest until they fond him in his human form again. La Dispersion du fils is built on this devouring. A work offered to those who are ready to discover a space of freedom, to those who agree to change how they look and listen. They will begin a strange journey between earth and sky, between the intestines of the devouring dog and the Great Dog constellation - that of Sirius - who, according to legend, was born from the collective suicide of Actaeon's dogs, inconsolable for never having found their master again. A journey into the animal body that contains the memory of Actaeon, a journey to the celestial body, in an infinity of return trips. Here, technological progress sends us back to where we have never gone before: to the archaism of the myth of Diana and Actaeon. It permits us to return to the origins through a path we never followed before. JFP