Video & CGI Animation, 27 min
Checking blind spots, sorting out the pieces of information we receive, estimating the distance of a car in the rearview mirror while convincing ourselves that road conditions ahead won’t change drastically while we check for traffic on the sides or behind us: getting a driver’s license can be like attending a school of perception. It also means entering a system of signs and a language that each instructor conveys in their own way, and from which we may eventually retain certain sentences that vary between instruction and mantra. [...]
To recreate this experience which forms the background of Le Sortilège, Bertrand Dezoteux guides us through a blend of live-action shooting, road signs generated by an automated model, and a computer-generated driving instructor character. Operating within a digitized conception of the world, this instructor is the only character in the film to appear as a computer-generated image.
• Elsa Boyer, Exhibition text