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  Marie Jose Burki
Celui Qui a Vu Passer les Elephantes Blancs
  Switzerland 1986
Videotape, 10:20, colour
'Celui qui a vu passer les éléphants blancs' is a video-poem. A very small nuffiber of words provide the linking element between widely varying images. The word 'blanc', appearing in the title, is a central term. In the course of the production it is interpreted in various ways: as a white sheet of paper, as an empty space needing to be filled, and as a white object. The slow progress of a snail over a sheet of white paper proceeds in synchronicity with fragments of news broadcasts. Later the snail disappears out of frame to make room for a montage of moments of so-calied suspense from B-feature films: a series of 'climax es' all in fact very much like one another. The closing scene features the video-tape itself, naturally enough being transponed in a white briefcase. When the snail reaches the end of the sheet of paper, , Celui qui a vu passer les éléphants blancs' is also at an end.

Marie-Adèle Rajandream

Co-production: MJC Saint Gerveis, Geneve