Entrée

Entrée is a reflection on the fusion of viewer and visual world in hi-tech cinema locations. The raw stock of the videotape is grainy film footage shot in the Parc d'image in Poitiers :the spherical and crystalloid monumental architecture on green fields, oversize screens and dark arenas reserved for audiences. Originally representational in character (with a brief glimpse of the title-giving Entree to the futuroscope), the footage is fragmented through digital editing into abstract visual elements.Multiple visual echoes, double images and the industrial staccato of sound samples on the soundtrack represent the technical subsumation of people subjected to the diktat of a robot-controlled event machinery that consigns the viewers, unconsciously, from one experiental world to the next, and causes them ultimatly to vanish in the process. (Reinhard Wolf)