“LA ZEBREE - ONSIGHT!”
Few people in the climbing world know Emilie Pellerin, yet the Canadian climber has made a big name for herself in onsight climbing in recent years. This type of climbing involves ascending a route completely on the first attempt—without stopping and, of course, without a single fall. With La Zébrée, a 5.14-rated overhanging crack climb in Quebec, she takes on her biggest onsight challenge yet.
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EN
"This piece, with the generic title Film, is a series of short videos built around one protocol: a snippet of news from a newspaper of the day, is rolled up and then placed on a black-inked surface. On making contact with the liquid, the roll opens and of Its own accord frees itself of the gesture that fashioned it. As it comes alive in this way, the sliver of paper reveals Its hitherto unexposed content; this unpredictable kinematics is evidence of the constant impermanence of news. As well as exploring a certain archaeology of cinema, the mechanism references the passage of time: the ink, whether it is poured or printed, is the ink of ongoing human history." –Ismaïl Bahri
