THE BEGINNINGS

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  • Artist ANAËLLE VANEL
  • Technical: Digitized Super 8 silent flm Courtesy Anaëlle Vanel
  • Duration: 4'59''
  • Year of production: 2021 / Première
  • Country: France
Through first-person narration, a young girl, Claudine, is invoked throughout the film. Her ideas and memories engage in a dialogue with a painting by Masaccio, tracing through their contact the process of the emergence of thought and consciousness. Contrary to an identity that would be given by a name, by origins, or by the expectations of others, would an "objectivity" of the self then be possible? It is this "desire for objectivity," as an aspiration for emancipation that Claudine tries to respond to. Here, the text alone produces images that emerge on the very surface of the film.

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ANAËLLE VANEL

BORN IN 1991 IN MENDE (France). LIVES AND WORKS IN LAPEYROUSE (FRANCE) She is a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon in 2014. Anaëlle Vanel mainly works with photography and text. She lived for several years in Berlin, where she developed a practice of analog photography shooting. "Primitive Life" (or “La vie primitive”), her first film, is also the result of this darkroom work. Her recent personal exhibitions are: “But, let’s say, there are obscurities.”; “What we are made of” (La fabrique du nous), Institute of Contemporary Arts of Villeurbanne (2020); “Action, here I come”, Mende (2018), an exhibition acquired by the National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP) in 2019.