Jacques Perconte

The window of an apartment in Rotterdam leads us to the outskirts of an industrial port, a strident and devouring machine that pours out its flames. In front of this infernal and metallic spectacle, the horizon appears obstructed. The steel factories transform the material into smoke, and the boats sail against winds and tides. Above the metal and the buildings that pierce the sky: silence and the flight of and the flight of birds are only a hypothesis (www.jacquesperconte.com)

"Mountains are falling, and there's nothing we can do about it. (...) If Mount Blanc falls, it also rises." (imdb)

With the immense freighters, the colors of the horizon will come, pushed by the winds, to take the whites of the cliffs, to project them in the green of the vegetation…

A dawn journey through the Père Lachaise cemetery transforms the visible record of the place into digital traces of daybreak, thus making tangible the memory of this place and projecting it into the qualities of the various image components, with an emphasis on color information, whose tones change from dark to bright and glowing. (imdb)

A few miles from Ajaccio, Corsica, burnt land is buckling under the weight of its colors. The ground is falling apart, releasing pictorial energies that take over the sky. I'm staring at the vanishing skyline. And the train keeps on rolling... (imdb)

Passing landscape, the uneven flickering of contours, fleeting glances, waves of matter, the constant questioning of the meaning of the visible in film, of which we can only say that it is beautiful.