FNC 2015 | CYCLING UTRECHT

DIRECTED BY PIERRE HÉBERT
QUÉBEC/CANADA | 600 MINUTES | 2015

Cycling Utrecht is an installation commissioned by the Holland Animation Film Festival and the city of Utrecht to celebrate the grand départ of this year’s Tour de France on July 5. Prior to that, it had shown in various museums and public spaces around the city between March and July. The installation consists of a pair of adjacent screens on which play two loops of unequal lengths. The resulting lack of correlation creates an ongoing stream of new relationships between the video and audio components of this work with no beginning or end. Throughout the period during which the loops are out of sync — it would take over a week for them to return to their initial state — every possible relationship between them is explored, yielding a singular experience for each viewer. Source images were shot in November 2014 along the race’s planned route. As in every other work in the Places and Monuments series (of which Cycling Utrecht is No. 7), the live-action images were manipulated digitally and interposed with animated inserts to give them greater temporal and spatial density.