Tohu va bohu
Le Fresnoy Video Special Feature: Lou Le Forban Tohu va bohu
RAN Focus / Video screening
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11/1(Sun) 3:00 - 4:00
Roppongi Hills Arena
Free
Detail
At the end of August, a village in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is struck by an outbreak of “dancing plague,” sending humans and animals into a collective trance. Inspired by the dancing plague recorded in Strasbourg in 1518 and Jean Giono’s 1932 short story Le prélude de Pan, Tohu va bohu is a hybrid animated film conceived as an ecological fable. Combining drawings, 3D modeling, live-action footage, and paper-puppet animation, the work brings together different visual worlds, from Flemish painting and the Provençal countryside to scenes of collective trance. Without revealing the cause of the mysterious outbreak, the film depicts an interspecies frenzy in which humans and animals are swept together into an increasingly chaotic dance.
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Artist
Lou Le Forban
Born in 1997 in Marseille, Lou Le Forban studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing. Her work centers on video, painting, and textiles, composed like collages that bring together different imaginations, from historical anecdotes to folk tales. Her work has been exhibited at La Villette, FRAC Île-de-France, Institut Français Madrid, Musée National de Cluny, Argos Center Brussels, Transpalette Bourges, and universities in Angers and Rennes.
