CYPRIEN GAILLARD
Cities of Gold and Mirrors
Cyprien Gaillard`s Cities of Gold and Mirrors (2009) is a film that is set principally in and around the mexican city of Cancún. The nine-minute film has a sequence of five parts or chapters set to a particular looped recording of "Le Feu de St. Elme" by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy (1982).
The city of Cancún, founded in 1970, offered Gaillard a landscape perpetuated by a spirit of amnesia, anachronism and ruin; that of the `spring breakers´ returning to the USA with but addled recollections, or the architects who built modern hotels upon Mayan ruins. Within the film's typically non-narrative structure, a spirit of displacement presides; time and space are annulled in the moment of the spectacle and the delirium of the carnival.
In courtesy of Laura Bartlett Gallery
--Galleri Annen Etage
