le temps du monde fini commence
InspirĂ© dâune citation de Paul ValĂ©ry, le temps du monde fini commence, explore la fin dâun monde que lâon croyait inĂ©puisable. Ă travers des images dâarchives des annĂ©es 50 tirĂ© du film en 16 mm, Du plaisir pour tous, de lâOffice national du Film du Canada, Ă©poque de modernitĂ© triomphante oĂč lâon voit lâhomme façonner la terre comme un terrain de jeu, le film rĂ©vĂšle, en creux, les prĂ©mices dâun basculement.                                                                                                      En intervenant directement sur la pellicule, en la grattant, en lâĂ©prouvant, le geste cinĂ©matographique devient une mĂ©taphore : celle dâun monde blessĂ©, altĂ©rĂ©, marquĂ© par les traces de lâhomme. Ce film est une mĂ©ditation visuelle sur la finitude, sur la conscience nouvelle que tout a une limite, la terre, le temps, les corps. Entre mĂ©moire et matiĂšre, jeu et disparition, le temps du monde fini commence, nous place face Ă notre hĂ©ritage et Ă lâurgence de le regarder autrement.
Inspired by a quote from Paul Valéry, The Time of the Finite World Begins explores the end of a world once believed to be inexhaustible. Through archival footage from the 1950s, taken from the 16mm film, Pleasure for All by the National Film Board of Canada, an era of triumphant modernity where humans reshape the earth as if it were a playground, the film subtly reveals the early signs of a coming shift. By intervening directly on the film stock, scratching it, testing it, the cinematic gesture becomes a metaphor: that of a wounded, altered world, marked by human traces. This film is a visual meditation on finitude, on the growing awareness that everything has a limit: the land, time, bodies. Between memory and material, play and disappearance, The Time of the Finite World Begins confronts us with our legacy and the urgent need to see it differently.












