The Blue Cape of Cinema
"Art & Cinema" at La Mostra Venice, August 2003

The Blue Cape of Cinema is an ephemeral monument inhabited by 12 persons
the time of each performance. Each action consists of a march parade
in a city and a place of a designated country.
During the processing of the parade, the inhabitants of the Cape will change masks and identities.



The Blue Cape of Cinema, my latest mobile, ephemeral and living monument,
is dedicated to cinema, to those who have made cinema,
have contributed to your/my knowledge of cinema, it is also a travel cape...

Its journey begins at the Mostra in Venice on the beach of the Lido just opposite
The Hotel des Bains, a cult space in memory of Visconti, Dirk Bogarde, of Death in Venice.
On that footbridge of the Lido, at nightfall, the cape marches slowly, accompanied by its music. The 12 inhabitants of the communal garment several times change masks inscribed with the names of films, actors, directors. At the end of this act, the performers take off the cape
which becomes a giant screen upon which are projected
the names of around one hundred and fifty films...