Cl茅ment Cogitore: The Evil Eye
With The Evil Eye the young French filmmaker Cl茅ment Cogitore won the coveted Marcel Duchamp Prize at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2018, 鈥� only one of many international prizes this artist has already been awarded 鈥�, including the nomination for the C茅sar for best first film, and several nominations at Cannes Film Festival, 2015. The Galerie Reinhard Hauff is proud to present The Evil Eye for the first time in Germany and to offer a Stuttgart audience the exceptional opportunity to see this technically ambitious and outstandingly high quality film.
The Evil Eye is a high tech psycho thriller of eroto-comatose lucidity questioning the future of humanity. The belief systems of mankind take the female 鈥� body and spirit 鈥� as the principal source of Evil, and seduction as its soft power. Cl茅ment Cogitore鈥檚 film 鈥� carried exclusively by female bodies and voices 鈥� uses multipurpose videos bought by the artist from Getty鈥檚 or Shutterstock鈥檚 gigantic image bank catalogues of stereotypes like "Lonely Woman" or "Beauty Girl". These images are used for selling a product, an ideology, dream, an identity, an identification, a hope, an ideal. Not a personal story. Advertising is a powerful language loaded with glossy, photo-shopped female aesthetics as that sells better. But it鈥檚 usually a one-way language of "Buy This", and that language is not used to talk about other issues. Cogitore, however, finds a way to chain unrelated stereotype images of slow motion gestures, lifeless, artificial beauties together through his own fictional narrative incorporating fragments from the Apocalypse of St. John, Dante鈥檚 Inferno and other ominous prophesies or warnings. These are sung and read in the film by voices from the other side, from deep space, from across time. With this narrative he takes us to a place of unexpected emotions 鈥� to a place of beaming alternative facts. The viewer is sucked into this apocalyptic narrative addressing a humanity on the brink of an (evil?) post-truth reality.
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With The Evil Eye the young French filmmaker Cl茅ment Cogitore won the coveted Marcel Duchamp Prize at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2018, 鈥� only one of many international prizes this artist has already been awarded 鈥�, including the nomination for the C茅sar for best first film, and several nominations at Cannes Film Festival, 2015. The Galerie Reinhard Hauff is proud to present The Evil Eye for the first time in Germany and to offer a Stuttgart audience the exceptional opportunity to see this technically ambitious and outstandingly high quality film.
The Evil Eye is a high tech psycho thriller of eroto-comatose lucidity questioning the future of humanity. The belief systems of mankind take the female 鈥� body and spirit 鈥� as the principal source of Evil, and seduction as its soft power. Cl茅ment Cogitore鈥檚 film 鈥� carried exclusively by female bodies and voices 鈥� uses multipurpose videos bought by the artist from Getty鈥檚 or Shutterstock鈥檚 gigantic image bank catalogues of stereotypes like "Lonely Woman" or "Beauty Girl". These images are used for selling a product, an ideology, dream, an identity, an identification, a hope, an ideal. Not a personal story. Advertising is a powerful language loaded with glossy, photo-shopped female aesthetics as that sells better. But it鈥檚 usually a one-way language of "Buy This", and that language is not used to talk about other issues. Cogitore, however, finds a way to chain unrelated stereotype images of slow motion gestures, lifeless, artificial beauties together through his own fictional narrative incorporating fragments from the Apocalypse of St. John, Dante鈥檚 Inferno and other ominous prophesies or warnings. These are sung and read in the film by voices from the other side, from deep space, from across time. With this narrative he takes us to a place of unexpected emotions 鈥� to a place of beaming alternative facts. The viewer is sucked into this apocalyptic narrative addressing a humanity on the brink of an (evil?) post-truth reality.
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