This is a series of films and video installations that deals with History, memory, forgetting, daily life that goes on around monuments. . No 1 : 2009, Praha-Florenc, no 2 : 2011, Place Carnot-Lyon, no 3 : see 3/11, no 4 : 2011, Thunder River, no 5 : 2013, John Cage-Halberstadt, no 6 : 2014, Berlin – The Passage of Time, no 7 : 21015, Cycling Utrecht, no 8 : 2017, Bazin’s Film; no 9 : 2018, The Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville; no 10 : 2018, Berlin – The Passage of Time (film version); No 3/11 : 2021, Mount Fuji seen from a moving train; no 12 : Selfportrait between Prag and Vienna.. Some other films were made before the series explicitely existed and are really part of it : 2005, The Statue of Giordano Bruno and 2007, Herqueville.
Texts about Places and Monuments :
Places and Monuments, Transforming the Temporal Flux
Places and Monuments and Berlin
Places and Monuments by Nicolas Thys on Vithèque
Complete screening in V.O.D.
