The Last Tour

  • Marine Hugonnier
  • 2004
  • France; United Kingdom
  • 14 minutes
  • No dialogue
  • © Marine Hugonnier - Max Wigram Gallery
    © Marine Hugonnier - Max Wigram Gallery

The Last Tour‘s fictional action is set at the end of the Age of Spectacle, at a time when tourist attractions are about to be completely closed off to the public. The viewer embarks on a ‘last tour’; a hot-air balloon flight over the famous, iconic Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. The film suggests the possibility of a blank space reappearing on the map, a reference to the world before the Era of Discovery.

  • Production : Villa Médicis hors les Murs; Dundee Contemporary Arts; Galerie Judin
  • Editing : Ida Bregninge
  • Sound : Cristian Manzutto
  • Photography : Tom Townend