#video-art

#video-art

I'd always thought of myself as too impatient for raw footage and long, unedited takes-I liked my stories synthesized. And I remained unconvinced by the old utopian claims of the fly-on-the-wall view touted by those French filmmakers of the '50s and '60s: even as observational cinema tries to avoid manipulation, it is always inevitably shaped by a director, a team, an angle, a moment in time.

We wanted to do, for the first time, a video portrait of this garden-the largest in the centre of Paris, and the only attached institutionally to a major museum.