Alexis de Raphelis

Associating cinema, photography and biology, the Immersion installation comprises a laboratory-machine, conceived by Lia Giraud (France, 1985), that produces a living image made by microalgae. Through a computer interface, these images interact in real time with the screening of the movie made for the occasion by Alexis de Raphelis (France, 1983). The fiction recounts the ritual of the disappearance of a disillusioned man in his forties into his “algae-becoming”. The apparatus works as a revelator of the slow process that moves the protagonist: the film influences the biological behavior of the algae and the algae organically impregnate the pace of the movie.