The Master's Tools

The Master’s Tools is a film which is based on the fresco in four performative installation paintings made during Nuit Blanche Paris 2017.

At the centre of a choreography of vehicles – instruments of repression as well as objects of fascination – supercharged bodies rub shoulders. While dancers indulge in jerky hard-dance movements, others bunch up to better resist an order to disperse. Further away, a vandalised limousine is at the centre of an exceptional kissing contest. In close proximity to this contemporary “raft of Medusa”, a ballet of washers remove the slogan “Tomorrow has been cancelled” which was sprayed on the ground a few minutes earlier. The camera continues to film and yet you never know which side of the screen you are on – at the heart of an event or merely a representation of the act. In this post-internet ballet, (La)Horde examines the relationship between humans and industry.