David Claerbout presents a new work: White House

Lasting over thirteen hours and filmed in a single day, Claerbout's film shows two men engaged in a discussion against the back-drop of a neoclassical house in southern France. An act of violence is repeated and re-enacted seventy times over the course of the film.

Previous works include Vietnam, 1967, near Duc Pho (reconstruction after Hiromichi Mine “Friendly Fire”) (2001). Here, the artist re-animates a historical photograph of a US fighter plane disintegrating in mid-air. Dissolving the boundaries between photography and film, Claerbout’s work puts into question the reassuring stillness of photography and the inevitable narrative progress of the cinematic image. His film and photography installations disorient the viewer by endowing still images with movement and by slowing or even halting the cinematic passage of time.