Marie Quéau: What I like about found material is the idea of ‘patches’, or in French, ‘pièces rapportées’. I am fascinated by science-fiction, because it makes me both think and dream.ĭD: I was particularly interested in your use of found and digital images such as video grabs and gifs in your work. Scientific headways are a great source of inspiration to science-fiction, and scientists often use Sci-Fi novels as source material for ethical debates. I find it interesting that most major movie directors made a science-fiction movie during their careers. Science fiction is an encounter between playfulness and seriousness questions about fantasy and society. Marie Quéau: Science-fiction is very important to me, because it is at the crossroads of all the other cinematographic genres. What is interesting to you about this genre? I adopt the role of an editor – manipulating different kinds of images to give meaning to the monster and the monstrous.ĭD: The visual language of science and science-fiction also plays a big role in your work. It takes a lot of steps to find the right edit or montage, the one that will be at the edge between fiction and documentary. The pictures become so diverted that they become crossroads of numerous unknown influences. A work such as Gojira mixes all kind of images. I have been collecting images of Godzilla for over six months, searching for every piece of information I could find about the monster and the island of Oshima where he lives. The feeling of observation or examination runs throughout my work. Marie Quéau: My practice is similar to that of a researcher in his lab. He represents important questions dealing with pollution and what Man rejects into nature and his environment.ĭD: The process of research seems very much at the heart of your work. Godzilla is a modern bogeymen or scarecrow. The monster is dark and ambivalent he attacks and defends at the same time. The character embodied our fears of nuclear technology and came to represent everything that the Japanese abandoned to the Americans. Marie Quéau: Godzilla is a sea monster and a Hybrid, a merging between a gorilla and a whale born from the atomic bombings. The 25-year-old photographer's 'Gorija' project combines scientific-like photographs with constructed collages and eye-jarring digital images – a cabinet of curiosities exploring and exposing the contemporary photographic image.ĭazed Digital: Your Gojira work can be read like a scientific study, a presentation of anecdotal evidence exploring the history and ideas of the infamous monster. Marie Quéau, one of the youngest photographers in this year’s selection at the Hyères Festival in France, combines a pragmatic research process with a timely exploration of contemporary image-making.
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