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The concept of metamorphosis is a fertile idea as can be seen from Ovid’s famous book and this tape by Pelletier. It is emphatically stated that it is not the ordinary changes that have taught us natural history (the, to a layman, extraordinary life cycle of egg / caterpillar / chrysalis / butterfly), but a dramatic metamorphosis in which you can find no logical connection: the conviction that a hymenoptera like the bee arises from the drops of nectar from the orchid. Despite possessing the same prefix, a metaphor is something else entirely. Man, seen as an hour glass is just a striking metaphor, like letters on white paper can be metamorphosed into cadavers spread out in a desert. Pelletier shuffled together both meta-concepts into an intriguing tape. Breath is added to a ball kneaded from earth and clay; the mechanically heaving abdomen will come to rest only in death. With fine use of language and illustrated with industrial scenes, the maker unfolds, often in slow-motion, a philosophy about the necessity of endless movement which can lead to delirium. Mankind is a mixture of gas, fluid and sperm; mankind is a buzzing bee population at the honeycomb.
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Erik Daams
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Text, scenario Alain Pelletier, Guylaine Lemieux, Camera Michel Laveaux, Alain Pelletier, Editing Christophe Flambard, Sound, Music Monique Jean, Voice Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Vénélina Ghiaourov, With Fernand Brousseau, Karla McCarthy
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