Hantédemos
Theremespare - Film - 22min - 2024
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 26
Film
In 2019, I bought a phone that systematically geolocated me in a green zone in the Morvan region [Burgundy]. Instead of looking for a rational explanation, I decided to go to this mysterious place, which I did in the summer of 2023. In the meantime, a narrative labyrinth had developed around it all, mingling with the post-Covid mindset.
Theremespareis an esoteric heterotopia invented by a TikTok influencer, in which the narrator, filming in POV mode, becomes obsessed and dissolves the boundary of their phone screen in a process of narcotic consumption of forms of escape from the contemporary world, alienated by capitalist realism and the vortex of the digital.
Theremespareembodies a desire for transcendence, a treasure hunt and a glitch in the disconnected life of the queer-artist protagonist.
Theremespareis also a set of Google Maps coordinates, which he pursues through layers of metamorphic fantasies and illusions.
The film is a treasure hunt, seeking a reality (the truth?) that is always bolting down rabbit holes.
Hantédemos
Hantédemos was born in 1990 and lives in Paris. Having graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy in 2015, they develop fictional universes in the mediums of film and performance. Their work has been shown at Frac Aquitaine, Point Ephémère in Paris, the Cité de l’agriculture in Marseille and the Ugly Duck in London. In 2021 they had a residency under the Générator programme in Rennes and in 2023, they entered at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.
