Synopsis
Gradiva, a mineral body suspended in movement, frozen by the sculptor’s work, takes a step out of time. Shot in Pompeii by Raymonde Carasco, “the event of Gradiva’s step, its effect of ‘suspended flight’ and floating cinematic time, occurs here at the intersection of several dimensions: shooting speeds, light and shot size in its landscape dimension. Multidimensional time, open to all becomings, becoming-animal, becoming-molecule, becoming-music above all perhaps” (Erres, n° 6, Toulouse, 1978.). Indeed, it is through the rhythmic visual montage that emancipates itself from the soundtrack, and the repetition of a motif, that the film acquires a magical dimension of its own, questioning the intrinsic temporality of the elements that make up each shot. A suspended step that shifts our apprehension of the world and invites us to suspend our perceptual habits.
