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Julien Maire's performances using proto-cinematic apparatuses and micro-machines both evoke and outdistance the illusions of the fantasmagoric projections of pre-cinema. His intricate archaeology, however, does not appear to be primarily concerned with retrieving the effect-ploys of optical illusion, but reimagining the apparatus itself as illusory, one in which its operation the image and its operation are meticulously intertwined. Demi-Pas transforms the image machine into a time machine by evoking both mechanical and physical movements. Maire's performances play in the interstices between machine and image, and provoke a serious reconsideration of the cinematic imaginary and its interface. (from the transmediale.04 Jury Statement)

archive.transmediale.de/04/page/detail/detail.0.projects.106.html (transmediale website archive)

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[01] - [09] Julien Maire: Demi Pas, photos: Julia von Vietinghoff

[10] - [15] Julien Maire: Demi Pas, photos: Stefanie Pluta