CGI Animation, 13 min
For great artists, great hunger. Bruno Gironcoli is hungry, very hungry. It doesn't matter that he died more than ten years ago: to satisfy his hunger, he will need nothing less than a nice wienerschnitzel, a slice of apfelstrudel and an Almdudler to wash it down. And right away! When you're a renowned Austrian sculptor, the least one can do is for the Deliveroo delivery rider to give his best effort. This fellow who is in a hurry to hand over his consignment to the sculptor is the starting point of Super-reign, the new video by Bertrand Dezoteux. At the other end of the line, a deliveryman takes the order and then rushes from the Place des Fêtes in Belleville, the tasty goods enclosed in his green cubic shell. The setting is known, surveyed, experienced. But over the next twelve minutes, the spectator witnesses the meticulous deconstruction of all spatial and temporal reference points, tipping over into a pure 3D delirium inspired by the surrealist universe of Bruno Gironcoli. From the 1960s until his death, he imagined monumental sculptures painted in bronze, silver or gold, where the mechanical and the organic hybridize. Resembling strange obsessive altars from forgotten dictatorships, these forms are seen coming to life in the video. Appearing on the screen as small inoffensive bugs, they soon swell so much that they progressively cannibalize the entire field of vision with their jaws of rattling iron – including those who had the misfortune of being there. [...] • Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Les Inrocks