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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Le ressac
Yves Le Peillet
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A waiting room, the tide is out. Wooden chairs are discovered, well ordered against a wall.Through an open window, we can hear children playing on a beach.
Everything seems to be quiet. A chair starts to move and then goes back to its first position. It slips again, followed by another one. Soon, all the chairs start moving, ebbing and flowing. More and more they knock against one another, violently, and they knock against the walls of the room, too, so that we hear a grinding sound reminiscent of waves breaking on the sand. Gradually, the chairs' movements become more and more ample, more and more flexible. The chairs seem to be like seaweed, and they are bathed in an aquatic atmosphere, as if they have been invaded by the tide coming in.
Suddenly, the sea pulls out.The atmosphere is the same as at the beginning of the film. Then from a high angle view, we discover a wooden wreckage stranded in the waiting room, which is as empty and quiet as in the beginning.
Everything seems to be quiet. A chair starts to move and then goes back to its first position. It slips again, followed by another one. Soon, all the chairs start moving, ebbing and flowing. More and more they knock against one another, violently, and they knock against the walls of the room, too, so that we hear a grinding sound reminiscent of waves breaking on the sand. Gradually, the chairs' movements become more and more ample, more and more flexible. The chairs seem to be like seaweed, and they are bathed in an aquatic atmosphere, as if they have been invaded by the tide coming in.
Suddenly, the sea pulls out.The atmosphere is the same as at the beginning of the film. Then from a high angle view, we discover a wooden wreckage stranded in the waiting room, which is as empty and quiet as in the beginning.
Yves Le Peillet (F), born 1965, attended ENSAD (Ecole National des Arts Decoratifs) and graduated in cinema and video design. After graduating he workes as a freelance computer artist on a 3D fiction film. In 1993 he joined BUF Paris/Los Angeles as a computer artist and a special effects supervisor.