Film screenings & book launch: Michel Lorand
MICHEL LORAND: MUSIC AS AN IMAGE OF TIME
Michel Lorand's films generally deal with the temporal relationship between music and moving images. Here, time is considered a sensitive element that reveals an unexpected reality: the eye listens and the ear sees. By choosing the performative aspect of musical compositions, we move towards an "hors champ" movement that is part of duration, waiting, memory and forgetting.
WIELS Auditorium
Free admission subject to availability
For the Michel Lorand cycle at CINEMATEK
Book launch / lecture: 13.04.2025 I 15:00 – 16:00
Photo: shooting 'Unfading', 2022
SCREENING (in loop)
BAL
B&W HD film, 16x9, stereo sound, 4’30’’, 2019
BAL is a film with black images, composed of a sound creation based on the poem by Hans Faverey: Man & dolphin / mens & dolfijn, 1977. This film is a canon in five voices fashioned on the five verses of the poem. These are recorded, repeated and shifted by one stanza at each reading. The five readings of the poem first blend together and then untangle themselves.
STILL
B&W HD film, 16x9, stereo sound, 4’, 2015
STILL begins with the sounding of a gong. A single strike whose sound vibrates for several minutes before disappearing. The images accompany this gradual slowing down until the last image of the film seems to freeze. Still refers to Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I, premiered in Brussels on 9 December 1964.
TWILIGHT
HD colour film, 16x9, stereo sound, 31’, 2018
TWILIGHT is a film shot at the North Sea. The camera films the horizon from left to right and back again, in a regular, repetitive, wide and swinging motion (one sweep per minute). The last 30 minutes of the day are framed by 30 violin notes that disappear with each pass until total darkness, until silence.
BOOK PRESENTATION / LECTURE
13.04.2025 I 15:00 – 16:00
In French - WIELS Auditorium - Free access
Larisa Dryansky: Filming Spherical Time, about Michel Lorand's films / Book presentation: Musique as an Image of Time (Publisher CINEMATEK, 2025)
Larisa Dryansky is associate professor of contemporary art history at Sorbonne Université. Her research focuses on the intersections between art, science, and technology, and on technical images (photography, film, video, digital arts). She is the author of Cartophotographies. De l'art conceptuel au Land Art (INHA/CTHS, 2017) and has co-edited several volumes including Repenser le médium. Art Contemporain et Cinéma (INHA/Presses du réel, 2021). Her work has also appeared in several scholarly journals, edited volumes, and exhibition catalogs in France and internationally.
Michel Lorand is a visual artist (1961) based in Brussels. His films and installations have been included in international events, such as the Venice Biennale, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement at the MAMCO in Geneva, the Video and New Media Art Biennale in Santiago de Chile, the International Video Art Biennial in Tel Aviv as well as in institutions such as the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and in Brussels, the WIELS, argos centre for audiovisual arts, the MIM (Musical Instruments Museum) and Cinematek.