Temps Mort


A film by Jasper Rigole


The majority of home movies are shot on holidays. When people return from their travels, they are very curious about the images they have shot. Often, however, there is still some film left in the camera.


The film Temps Mort uses the little fragments filmed in order to fill the reel, considering these shots of empty gardens, sleeping pets and flowerbeds to be more real than any home movie fragment. The term ‘temps mort’ is also a reference to Michelangelo Antonioni’s films. The term was used to describe the way Antonioni’s camera frequently wanders to and holds on apparently insignificant details in the frame, non-narrativized elements that have the effect of draining significance from the events that have just unfolded.


Watch the film here


Single Channel video, 8mm-film transferred to video, 20′, IICAVAH/IICADOM, 2010


Produced with the support of EHMN


Presentations to date:


Jasper Rigole – Home Movies , screening at Art Cinema OFFoff in Kunsthal Gent (2020)

Jubilee at Dazibao, Video Programme at Dazibao, Montreal (2019)