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Prix2007
Prix 1987 - 2007

 
 
Organiser:
Ars Electronica Linz & ORF Oberösterreich
 


HONORARY MENTION
Apnée
Claude Chabot


A camera is suspended in the air, seemingly defying gravity.

This is the beginning of a slow hypnotic trip that takes us into the convolutions of a gossip column, where an indiscrete photographer, a public personality and his female companion for the evening, as well as the mysterious driver of a blood-red sportscar have a fateful encounter.

All these individuals seem frozen in a universe where time has come to a stop, while our gaze slowly gets caught up in an interminable arabesque. The photographer appears to be the master of this play of illusions. Safe behind the lens of his camera, he seems to elude the reality he is observing. But this is just another illusion. Slowly but inexorably, the moment nears in which he realizes his error.