ID: 700008410 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008410	Record Type: Movable Work
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L'Ellipse (multi-channel video installation; Pierre Huyghe (French, born 1962); 1998; Sammlung Goetz (Munich, Bavaria, Germany))

Note: Huyghe was an innovator of the “post-production” technique, reusing existing mass media, such as films, to create new art. In the triple-screen projection L'Ellipse (1998), he slowed a jump cut from Wim Wenders's 1977 film The American Friend and expanded it by adding his own footage. Huyghe creates new footage for a scene from Wim Wender’s 1977 film The American Friend that illustrates the main character walking between locations excised in the original film with a jump cut. Twenty years later, the same actor takes a stroll through the streets of Paris, effectively filling the gap in Wender’s film. In the triple projection installation, the new footage is flanked on either side with the original film’s preceding scene to the left and the scene following the jump cut to the right.

Titles:

L'Ellipse (preferred,C,U,AR,French-P,U,P,English-P,L,P)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

multi-channel video installation [300390574] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, time-based works, video art)

Classifications:

films / videos (preferred)

Creation Date: 1998

Creator Display:

Pierre Huyghe (French, born 1962) [preferred,VP]

installation artist Huyghe, Pierre (French conceptual and video artist, born 1962) [500116146]

Locations:

Current: Sammlung Goetz (Munich, Bavaria, Germany) [500356266] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Other: Creation: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: three-channel color video installation with sound, parabolic screen, 3 DVDs (transferred from super 16 mm film)

	DVDs [300264677]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>, machine-readable artifacts, optical disks)

	sound systems [300255735]
	.......(Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), systems (equipment), <systems by function>, communication systems (mechanical and electrical systems))

	screens (projection) [300265735]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, image-projecting equipment)

	projectors (image projectors) [300233202]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, audiovisual equipment)

	loudspeakers [300250653]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by function>)

	16mm (photographic film size) [300263815]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name), <attributes and properties by specific type>, form attributes, size/dimensions, <size/dimensions by specific type>, <size for photographic film>)

Dimensions: 300 x 1200 cm (projection); super 16 mm film transferred onto Master Digital Betacam, 13 minutes (running time)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

activity (preferred,description)

human figures (description)

Specific Subjects:

	pedestrian [300025851]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>) (AAT)

	walking [300248181]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	fiction (general genre) [300055918]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>) (AAT)

	reality [300379727]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, psychological concepts) (AAT)

	time [300133089]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, physics concepts) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: video, film, performing arts

Sources and Contributors:
L'Ellipse	........ [VP]
	........ Barikin, Parallel Presents, (2012) 114
	........ Goetz et al., Fast Forward (2003) 214-215
	........ Huyghe and Lavigne, Pierre Huyghe (2013) 229
	........ Guggenheim Museum [online] (2014) https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/pierre-huyghe
	........ Hathi Trust Digital Library [online] (2000-) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010674462

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Huyghe and Lavigne, Pierre Huyghe (2013) 214-215

....................... Goetz et al., Fast Forward (2003) 229

....................... Barikin, Parallel Presents, (2012) 114

....................... Hathi Trust Digital Library [online] (2000-) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010674462

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Guggenheim Museum [online] (2014)
	..... Huyghe and Lavigne, Pierre Huyghe (2013) 229
	..... Goetz et al., Fast Forward (2003) 214-215
	..... Barikin, Parallel Presents, (2012) 114