Pauline Julier

To coincide with our exhibition Spaghetti Blockchain, Outernet Arts presents Supernova, a new film being shown for the first time by Swiss artist Pauline Julier.

“There is a trait that cinema and fire share: the imagination of movement. In that sense Pauline Julier’s films, videos and installations partake in the effort of reconnecting the moving image with the question of the fundamental constituents of the world, the “elements”– as pre-Socratic philosophy would put it. What does this mean? That a film allows us to go deep into the basic principles that constitute the material world, humans included. What are these elements? They are culturally diverse. While in the West we only name air, water, earth, fire and aether, in Eastern traditions, metal was added. Indeed, matter and how it emerges in the filmic matter is a very important element in the epistemology created by Pauline Julier. Her films, while demonstrating the need for systematisation associated with all rational thought – because of its sequential narrative flow – also reveal and insist on the collapse of any system in the face of the infinite richness of experience.” – Look at the sky. Is there no constellation called ‘rider’?’, Chus Martinez, 2023

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Editing: Pauline Julier
Original footage: ©NASA/JPL-Caltech
Sound: Matthieu Gasnier
Post-production: Raphaël Frauenfelder