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For Fargier, television means a continuing fascination, for it seems able to broadcast pictures devoid of meaning - images which, severed from the accompanying news story, have no meaning. Starting with this concept, he has spent the last few years making programmes based on literature, with images that have the same 'impact' as the literary work in which they are rooted. In 'Robin des voix', the work of the polyglot French poet Armand Robin is the starting-point for an interaction between archive radio extracts, an actor, and video-technics. The tape is a visual poem with lines formed by short one-act plays, the whole driven by the dramatic quality of original news reports which Robin could have heard, about Dien Bien Phoe, the Algerian declaration of independence, the death of Stalin, the Pope's blessing, and some football match or other.
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Pim Oxener
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Camera and lights: Jean-Michel Gautreau, Editing: Ermeline Le Mezo, Bernard Godard , Sound: Gilles Marchesi, Costumes: Emma Abadi, Production: INA, Ad Libitum TV, Video Montages, OROLEIS de Paris, Groupe Emile DuBois, CAC de Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CAC de Saint Brieuc, Université Paris 8, With: Jean-Claude Gallotta, Armand Robin, Mathilde Altaraz, Daniel Langlet, Manuel Parquet-Sorin
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