The work was open for viewing only during the Summer Screenings 2024.
VERTIGO by Benjamin Juhel USA, France (2024)
Feeling the experience of Los Angeles spaces in the night through the perception of a lonely woman,
wandering in the streets, having ritual moments of interiority, and letting go through dance.
Bio
Benjamin Juhel was born in Normandy, in 1984. Lives between Bordeaux & Los Angeles.
Graduated from Ecole des Beaux Arts in 2005, Benjamin Juhel used to work with photography and film. In 2007, he was the director of a workshop with The Company Theater in Mumbai called “Body, Space, Area”.
This time of artistic research using video, dance, and sound fixed the way he’s attached to choreography, rhythm and perception in his work.
The years after he created a few “Live Cinema” performances, physical and sensitive films played differently each time it was shown. His interest for gesture and architectural space can also be seen in “Silence” ( Dance – Thierry Mabon ) and “Ark” ( Dance – Anne Charlotte Baranger ), two forms of dance films.
In 2015, he used to work back with night and black with “Les Abandons”, a photography series of quiet abandoned bodies and silent cityscapes. Since then he used to create series using darkness, image’s physicality and the feeling of time duration.
His work has been shown in many exhibitions and film festivals ( London, Milan, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, Bordeaux, Tokyo… )
Directed by: Benjamin Juhel
Dance: Melissa Guerin Torres
Music: Stegonaute
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
