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Jean-Claude Bustros
Expanded cinema
Today, if the lay and the land are generative to our witnessing the flourishing of a new form of cinema, it's the contemporary viewer himself who is undergoing metamorphosis, ready for inception. And it is precisely upon this axis, that coming from the spectator's point of view, that we are directing our attention. The usage of expanded cinema ( or cinéma élargi ) has already been particularly inclined to the reverse side of motion picture projection, along with, in all trueness, the hope of subverting the cinema as we have come to know it.
However it is quite easy to see that the technology invested in the cinema today is mainly found in production and image creation ( establishing 3D models, recording devices, processing and post-production.....) Within the Schéma project which was set up at Hexagram in 2006, we believe that the genuine interests of a rejuvenated cinema industry are best served by inquiry into the full potential that cybernetic sciences and the new technologies might give to representation and image display, at the other end of the conveyor-belt.
Bearing this in mind, we are working on a cinematographic model which might well, in its turn, be omnipresent, and adaptable to all types of environment through interdependence (the two-dimensional screen exemplifying its immediate surroundings ); discerningly taking part in the imaged-future of reality; questioning the beholder as if he were a manoeuvrable subject. In other words, cinema just as uncommitted as to location, as to the person who is passing through it.
Recent publications:
1 «L’écran manifeste», in La Prolifération des écrans, sous la dir. de Louise Poissant et Pierre Tremblay, Ste-Foy, PUQ, 2008.