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Robert Cahen has already sent his 'cartes postales vidéo' from many cities - audio visual picture postcards which bring the impression of a city to life for a moment, often in an unexpected way. Complete stories in his typical style that leans so heavily on electronics, he sent from Hong Kong, from Easter Island and, last year, from Pisa where he recorded the Night of the Candles in such a way that it was a feast for the eyes. At the beginning of 1992 he went to the most extreme southern tip of Chili in order to confront us with the white hell of the Antarctic. A vast stretch of ice and snow, that will drive you insane, and deprive you of all sensation of time, direction or proportion. A lost black bird is the only concrete point of reference in this immense expanse where mist merges into snow, snow into ice and ice again into mist, seamlessly and indefinable, just like the accompanying carpet of sound. 'Voyage d'hiver' is no travelogue, but a poem printed with a suitable amount of white in a collection. It is also a journey into memory, according to Cahen who has dedicated this work to his permanent associate Ermeline Le Mézo.
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André Nientied
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Image: Robert Cahen, Angela Riesco, Sound: Robert Cahen, Music: Christine Groult, Editing, effects: Patrick Zanoli, In charge of production: Catherine Derosier, With thanks to: Grand Canal, Fearless and many others, Dedicated to: Ermeline Le Mézo, Production: Les Films du Tambour de Soie (Alexandre Cornu, Dominique Gibrail), CICV Montbéliard Belfort, L'Agence Culturelle Technique d'Alsace, Robert Cahen
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