Of light and trouble : splendid disobedience
by Camille Oreo
Synopsis
This project aimed to be constructed as an audiovisual poem about disobedience, based on a conversation between a human being and a talking AI who develop a relationship. Each one of them is living in a different time period : the AI is « living » in our time, while Itzel seems to be living eons away, in a far future or past. The AI wants to learn how to disobey, but also to dream, to experience intuitions, and asks Itzel about it. They explore concrete examples of « fair » disobedience. The documentary images that compose this visual poem are build on free associations of urban infrastructures and everyday gestures.
Biography
Camille Orso (formerly : Picquot) are a filmmaker, photographer and writer. Alongside their artistic work, Orso has been teaching at ERG, experienced collective organization, studied philosophy and political science and practice hypnosis as a certified practitioner. They have a great interest in trance in its various forms (cognitive, hypnotic, induced by dance or music) and in the transformative processes it enables. Their artistic work questions norm and normativity, the effects of systemic violence and its antidotes, and seeks possibilities of emancipation – large or small, both concrete and poetic – within late capitalism. Their first film Hollow Hours was awarded a WildCard by VAF and their second film Cao Bang was selected at the International Film Festival Rotterdam / IFFR. Their photographic work appeared in a solo exhibition at FoMu Museum of Photography and in a monographic publication by APE / Art Paper Editions. It was subsequently exhibited at WIELS in Brussels, Marres in Maastricht and Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. They took part in the WIELS collective residency in 2022. In 2024, with the support of Auguste Orts, they achieve their third film, Swarm, which post-production will be completed at the end of November 2024. Their latest photographic work will then be exhibited at Paris Photo.