Artist Statement

Screening, also shown at ISEA94

In the beginning, a gray desert-like countryside, checkered with yellow lines. At the end, a very colourful picture, covered with organic materials and a labyrinth of human bodies. Between the two, a love story plays with our attention.

A co-production Agave s.a. / Canal+ / Club d’investissement Media with the participation of Centre National de la Cinematographie Nouvelles Technologies and Compte de Soutien a I’Industrie des Programmes Audiovisuels of France.

ISEA Archives Video Channel: 

• Bériou, France. Bériou is a pseudonym of Jean-François Matteudi, a French videographer and visual artist born in 1952. Some of his computer generated short films, produced by Canal+ and released in many countries, were widely broadcast in the 1990s. [source: Wikipedia]. “In the high Provence valleys of the back country behind Nice, a beriou is a net used to wrap bales of hay. It was also the nickname of one of my great-grandfathers, a smuggler, gold-digger and first class drunk. I can’t remember when, nor why I decided to use it as a nom de plume for my drawings, but it’s appropriate, as my art is filled with numerous net-like grids”.