CONTEMPT
This video work is a blend of French New Wave cinema, pop music, re-adaptation
and desire. The video relies on Contempt, Jean Luc Godard’s film
from 1963 ( based on Alberto Moravia's novel of the same title) which
presents an analogy between the tragedy of film making and the failure of
modernism through the sudden deterioration of a married couple’s
relationship. For the video “Contempt” Javier Cambre edited a dialog from the sequence featuring Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli by cutting out the male counterpart
scenes played by Piccoli and replacing them with shots featuring himself at
his New York apartment.
and desire. The video relies on Contempt, Jean Luc Godard’s film
from 1963 ( based on Alberto Moravia's novel of the same title) which
presents an analogy between the tragedy of film making and the failure of
modernism through the sudden deterioration of a married couple’s
relationship. For the video “Contempt” Javier Cambre edited a dialog from the sequence featuring Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli by cutting out the male counterpart
scenes played by Piccoli and replacing them with shots featuring himself at
his New York apartment.
