The Renovation (2007)

Synopsis

Renovation, also known as Ruins, is a visit back in time that invites the viewer to experience that old time as current. Letters of the alphabet appear, one after another, in reverse. The camera moves through a building site under renovation to the sound of Enrico Caruso’s Tiempo Antico. When the alphabet has played out, the camera view drops down through the scaffolding while archival photographs of the same site, in earlier days, appear. When the song ends, a lively conversation at a fish market plays out.

Duration: 5:04 minutes

Format: MiniDV

The Renovation (2007) from Basic Bruegel on Vimeo.

Video shot in Vallauris, FR, also includes archival photographs from the region. • Screenings: Presented at the Senate House, London, UK, Nov 4, 2011 during the ‘Ruins’ conference. Isabelle Gadoin (Université de Poitiers) and Catherine Lanone (Université Paris 3), wrote an intro- duction for the conference and a review of The Renovation, published in Revue de la Société d’Études anglaises contemporaines, Colloque de la SÉAC, 43, Decembre 2012 • 2007 20es Ins- tants Vidéo, Marseille, FR.