Demi-Pas is a short film and is projected using a “reversed camera” technique. A projector has been converted to house micro-mechanisms that produce animated images using a principle similar to that of cinematography. Demi-Pas thus finds its own narrative methods, its own action and images, like a kind of projected theater. Real objects and photographic material are transposed within the projector.

Based on this experimental form of projection, the film narrates a tale that has an extremely simple storyline: one man’s daily routine. Demi-Pas is a short film that constructs an everyday reality, thus highlighting simultaneously both the simplicity and the complexity of this reality.

Julien Maire (F), born 1969, studied art in Metz and lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions at galleries in France and Germany, his work was also shown at “Les rencontres internationales de la photographie” Arles, “Hull Time Based Art”, Hull, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, “International Symposium of Shadow”, London. Performances include venues such as Site Gallery Sheffield, ZKM, Transmediale 01 and 04, Berlin, and Emaf 04. In 2004 Julien Maire is artist in residence in Podewil.