Frederic D. Oberland
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MAO MAO

2005 - color - 4:3 - stereo sound - 2 min
Shooting format : found-footage 35mm and DV
A film by Frédéric D. Oberland
Music by Brahman / Arshgeil (Pentothal®, Vomir, Stromvarx & Frédéric D. Oberland)

A cry of solitary anger emerges from the maelstrom. Detournement and flicker are used here to transcend the futile nostalgia of political symbols tainted by the society of the spectacle and its inevitable issue: boredom. Let the dead burry the dead and pity them ; for it is our destiny to be the first to enter into the new world.

"The rage expressed in Frédéric D. Oberland's film, Mao Mao (2005) seems more direct and radical in regard to the cinematographic treatment of duration, light, color, and sound. The artist use archival political symbols that have become fairly banal and even monotonous these days. From here, it is the artist himself who rebels. With the same object, the political symbols, he goes beyond an ordinary perspective and stimulate another punk-live vision. In his film, the images are independent and separate from their representation through alienation and fluttering. We feel this tension. The soundtrack enhances his idea of going beyond the mundane. When we no longer hear the soundtrack, we fell it, and the film somehow makes present the release of anger."  Jihye Kim
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AVAILABLE NOW ON 'HUMAN FRAMES' 
A DVD BY LOWAVE 2012
  Screenings :
. Nov 2013 | Human Frames, Nuit Blanche, Paris (FR)
. Aug 2013 | Human Frames, Festival ISI, Montpellier (FR)
. June 2012 | Human Frames, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin (GER)
. May 2012 | Human Frames,  Cineteca, Madrid (SP)
. June 2011 | Human Frames, Kit-Kunst-Im-Tunnel, Düsseldorf (GER)
. May 2011 | Festival Nomades 2011, L'Etna, Paris (FR)
. Feb 2011 | Human Frames, The Substation, Singapore (SING)
. July 2010 | Songs d'Une Nuit d'Eté, Cinémathèque Française, Paris (FR)
. Aug 2006 | Festival On Air, CultureTV Video Podcasting  
. July 2006 | Copyright pour Tous, Cinémathèque Française, Paris (FR)
. Apr 2006 | Nouveau Casino, Paris (FR)

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