A Concrete Life

John Hill

10. janeiro 2017

Photo: Screenshot

Nowness presents musician Charles Derenne's five-minute ode to the architecture Paris. You won't see the historical architecture that draws people to the city center. Instead, Derenne focuses on the concrete architecture of the periphery.

Accompanied by his rollicking "Derenne: 1982" composition, the musician explains the short film at Nowness:

This film is an ode to architecture. As a child tries to sublimate the places of his adolescence, I wanted to transcribe the places of his youth, like Beaugrenelle, the tower of the new world and it's own hieroglyphs, in a deserted Paris and suburb. ... This video is a journey through time, an architectural shock aimed at questioning the public on their own visual memory. A fairly healthy way of reconsidering places of life inhabited.