Jordi Colomer

Le Dortoir

Film installation on the theme of sleep and dreams as a space outside of time.

In an apartment block on the city outskirts, everybody is asleep. It is the day after a big party. Le Dortoir visits each of the 12 storeys of the building one by one in an ascending movement, shifting from night to day and covering 24 hours in one single sequence.

Motionless actors and a camera gliding through space, Le Dortoir is built like a contemporary vanitas in motion, in which objects and architectures entirely made for the occasion play a lead role, making up the collective dream of the sleepers. It is shown in a small projection room stacked high with black mattresses. The soundtrack for the whole video is a work by the Dreamall Orchestra.

Arteplage
Murten-Morat

Artist
Jordi Colomer

Film duration
10 minutes - continuous loop

Video
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Photos: © Yves André