33 – Christian Marclay

A leading contemporary artist, Christian Marclay is famous for his skilful video installations that revisit the history of cinema. For Doors, over a period of more than ten years, he selected and put together countless extracts from films of the 20th and 21st centuries. The complex editing contrasts with the simplicity of the subject: a succession of doors opening and closing. Each door passage corresponds to the cut point, the transition from one scene to another, from one actor to another. In an endless loop, Brigitte Bardot or Sidney Poitier are lost and found again, while film genres collide. An architectural and mental labyrinth, this immense collage, presented at the Cinéma Astor, challenges our memory and our cinematic experience, tirelessly pushing us into these seemingly dead-end spaces of connection.

Exhibition layout and design by Images Vevey and the artist
In collaboration with Cinérive SA and at the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Cinéma Astor