Bordeaux Piece, 2004, 13 hours 43 mins
Bordeaux Piece consists of a series of sixty-nine short films of a single scene of love and betrayal set into the backdrop of a modernistic and very luxurious villa (Rem Koolhaas' Maison Bordeaux). The story repeats through the course of a day, conveying the sensation of time proceeding in a linear fashion – as sun circles the earth – while the human drama becomes increasingly banal, even absurd. This is a montage of four of the sixty-nine short films set at different times of the day (at dawn, around 8 pm, early afternoon, around 7 pm). One can easily notice the actors' attention decrease as the day progresses.
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