Bonjour chez vous Tropical Islands
« Be seeing you » is a film project whose starting point is a quite particular place : « Tropical Islands ». Built in the eastern German countryside on a former German then soviet military base, this gigantic dome (the world’s largest self-supporting hall) presently houses a tropical theme park. The ambient temperature is 25 °C and the water in the tropical sea is a pleasantly warm 30° C surrounded by an indoor rainforest. « Bring the Tropics home » was the founding idea of the investors, bring them to the place where you’d least expect them, Germany. The film, like an essay or a still travelogue, explores strikingly contrasted aspects of the situation : the landscape, the inhabitants and their history outside the dome confronted to the scenery, the actors and representation of the exotic inside.
Marie Voignier, diplômée de l’Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, est artiste vidéaste. Elle vit et travaille à Paris. Parmi ses réalisations :
The Great Train Robbery, blind, 9 min, 2006 (pièce sonore) Western DDR, 10 min, 2005 (doc.) Les Fantômes, 13 min, 2004 Portraits, 11 min, 2004 Elle est vêtue de noir, 6 min, 2004 Wild Child, 3 min, 2003 Sans titre (Mostapha), 5 min, 2003 L’Interview, 6 min, 2001