Hugues Reip

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THE HALO
The Halo
The Halo The Halo
The Halo The Halo
The Halo The Halo
The Halo The Halo
Video
02' 30", 2000

The ghostly light of a television, its bluish, ever-changing shadows dancing and flickering about a room plunged in darkness.
“The Halo” is a film of another film’s glow. That of Oskar Fischinger, “Allegretto”, directed in 1936 before fleeing Nazi Germany and immigrating to the United States.
Major figure in experimental film, Fischinger advised: “ ...descend into your eye, into the depths of your owneye –andcontinue...“

FNAC collection , Paris