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  Christiane Geoffroy
Impressions Numériquement Imprenables
  France 1986
Videotape, 13:40, colour
Enclosed by the four windows of a stationary vehicle, this video explores the nocturnal romance and erotic tension summoned up in a closed car, with the rain gently embracing the confined space and the car-radio turned on. Piano music accompanies the images of waiting hands lying quasi nonchalently where they happen to have fallen; eyes glance expectantly; an instinctive hand runs thoughtfully over a cheek where a growth of young stubble impairs the sensuality of the surface. Gestures reveal underlying motives and a whole fauna of symbols pass before us. Flowing lines proclaim tender desires, and the outside world seems far away from this enclosed space, where piano music leads us softly back again to the hazy image of the rhythmic to-and-fro of the windscreen wipers.

Sonja van der Burg

Scenario, light, editing, production: Christiane Geoffroy, Camera: Christiane Geoffroy, L. Bogniot, Philippe Garin, Music: Goldberg, Bach, With: Philippe Garin