Sister Ship
Maxime Rossi
Galerie Allen, Paris
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- Title
- Sister Ship
- Gallery
- Galerie Allen, Paris
- Year
- 2015
- Duration
- 52 min
- Format & Technical
Single channel. HD video, colour, stereo sound
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
- Guitar
- Sampler & Percussions
- Kora & Voice
- Organ Pipe
- Trumpet
- Synth, Sounds & K7
- Tap Dance & Body Percussion
- Bass Guitar, Synth, Orchestration
- Drums & percussions
- Recording
- Mix & Sound Edit
- Voice
- Text
- Produced by
- Editor
- Colorist
- Graphic Design Chapters
- Graphic Design Title
- Sound Design
- Cinematographer
- Camera Operator Overture:
- Animation
- Translation Lingala
- Translation French & proofreading
- Translation Italian
- Proofreading Italian
- Logistics
- Special Thanks
The musical film Sister Ship, presents an acid-drip journey through the Congo with a Pygmy tribe mixing unused documentary footage of life on the river. With the support of curator/author, Julie Ault, the book Come Alive: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita is cast in the lead role. This cover-to-cover reading, including the spine, footnotes, captions and illustrations, is transformed into song to a tap dance beat performed by a synaesthete’s translation of said book. The collaged text and image generate arresting video and sound interactions. Silhouettes of the river banks unfold like a timeline following this musical flip book. The long and sinuous travelling echoes the repetition of Corita Kent’s pop-art processions and activist slogans, chanted like gospel prayers. Like an immaterial musical taken aboard a steamboat, the seven acts create a psychedelic maze of real situations.
Stills
Maxime Rossi
- Artist
1980, Paris, France
Maxime Rossi received a Master’s Degree from Ecole Nationale des BeauxArts de Lyon, France (DNSEP) after studying fine arts at Concordia University in Montréal and Psychology at Université Catholique Lyon. Rossi presented his film Real Estate Astrology at Centre Pompidou. Sister Ship, 2015 was recently screened at Palais de Tokyo as well as inside his expanded cinema experience at Halles des Boucher, Vienne, curator Marc Bembekoff. His previous solo exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo and Galerie Edouard Manet, and group shows at Fondation Croy Belgium, Fondation François Schneider France, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Palais de Tokyo, Le Minotaure, Las Centrale for Contemporary Art Belgium, Galeries des Galeries Paris and S.M.A.K Belgium. His work is held in public collections CNAP and Artothèque Villeurbanne, and upcoming exhibitions and screenings include Musée d’ethnographie de Genève and Museo MADRE.
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- Address
- 59 rue de Dunkerque , 75009, Paris, France
- Phone
- +33 (0)1 45 26 92 33
- Website
- www.galerieallen.com
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