{"id":2392,"date":"2017-10-13T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2018-07-10T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T04:50:06","slug":"the-girl-chewing-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Chewing Gum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le film-culte de Jon Smith.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image8470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/girl.gif\" alt=\"The Girl Chewing Gum\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>John Smith : The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)<\/p>\n<p>Ce film (culte !) se compose de deux plans : un plan-s\u00c3\u00a9quence principal tourn\u00c3\u00a9 au carrefour d&rsquo;une banlieue londonienne, suivi d&rsquo;un plan en rase campagne.<\/p>\n<p>Tout ce qui appara\u00c3\u00aet dans le cadre &#8211; pi\u00c3\u00a9tons, v\u00c3\u00a9hicules, pigeons, etc &#8211; semble suivre les instructions pr\u00c3\u00a9cises d&rsquo;un r\u00c3\u00a9alisateur omnipotent (John Smith lui-m\u00c3\u00aame), que l&rsquo;on devine post\u00c3\u00a9 derri\u00c3\u00a8re la cam\u00c3\u00a9ra. Tout semble se d\u00c3\u00a9rouler comme si il poss\u00c3\u00a9dait un contr\u00c3\u00b4le total &#8211; quasi divin &#8211; sur le monde.<\/p>\n<p>Il donne des ordres de plus en plus \u00c3\u00a9labor\u00c3\u00a9s afin de modeler et de chor\u00c3\u00a9graphier la r\u00c3\u00a9alit\u00c3\u00a9 de son tournage, puis part lentement en vrille dans un commentaire affabulateur : les b\u00c3\u00a2timents s&rsquo;abaissent et s&rsquo;\u00c3\u00a9l\u00c3\u00a8vent selon ses caprices (il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;un travelling de la camera, les buildings restent \u00c3\u00a9videmment immobiles) , l&rsquo;horloge s&rsquo;avance litt\u00c3\u00a9ralement vers lui (alors qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;un zoom), etc. <\/p>\n<p>Sur un ton identique aux ordres qu&rsquo;il vocif\u00c3\u00a9rait \u00c3\u00a0 l&rsquo;intention du plateau d&rsquo;acteur, le r\u00c3\u00a9alisateur nous livre peu \u00c3\u00a0 peu des impressions perturbantes ou des suppositions douteuses qui font glisser le film dans une ambigu\u00c3\u00aft\u00c3\u00a9 insidieuse : \u00c3\u00a7a ne tourne plus rond. <\/p>\n<p>Il s&rsquo;agit finalement d&rsquo;une r\u00c3\u00a9flexion puissante sur le contr\u00c3\u00b4le fantasm\u00c3\u00a9 de la r\u00c3\u00a9alit\u00c3\u00a9 et le pouvoir des images.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"482\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/57hJn-nkKSA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2020\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/research-publications\/john-smith-the-girl-chewing-gum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Girl Chewing Gum 1976 by John Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u0153, un dossier tr\u00c3\u00a8s complet sur le site de la Tate Modern.<\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u2020\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/research-publications\/john-smith-the-girl-chewing-gum\/original-script-for-the-voiceover-to-the-girl-chewing-gum-r1176038\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La retranscription du script original de \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Girl Chewing Gum\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 (l\u00c3\u00a9g\u00c3\u00a8rement diff\u00c3\u00a9rent du commentaire final).<\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u2020\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsmithfilms.com\/selected-works\/the-girl-chewing-gum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/johnsmithfilms.com\/selected-works\/the-girl-chewing-gum\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/pixel_gris.gif\" alt=\"Grey line\" width=\"482\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cours &lsquo;Arts num\u00c3\u00a9riques &#8211; Atelier&rsquo;<br \/>\nP\u00c3\u00b4le Art, Erg (\u00c3\u2030cole de Recherche Graphique) 2017-2018.<br \/>\nProfesseur : Marc Wathieu. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/pixel_gris.gif\" alt=\"Grey line\" width=\"482\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le film-culte de Jon Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,55,23,58,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erg","category-erg-arts-numeriques","category-art","category-cinema","category-film","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multimedialab.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}