I filmed flames of fire and made a kaleidoscope montage. The result takes the form of the typical spots of a Rorschach Test but in motion. Like a global test of the media, each person sees different things on the same global screen, hypnotized by contemplating the medium. Like when we look at the flames of a fire, we are absorbed by the screens. A hypnotic medium that transforms our brain without surgery or with the electric currents of Doctor Duchenne. A global lobotomy that makes us forget what they want us to forget and leads our intimate global emotions. Images of the background faces are of children from the Auschwitz camps, faces of people who have suffered lobotomies, and photographs from Doctor Duchenne's "Atlas of Electro-physiologies" from 1862 - Where through electric currents to the facial muscles he provoked the physiological reactions of emotions...
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