Long Goodbye

Original Title|Long Goodbye

35' | 2007 (Completed)

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Director

David Claerbout

This is a video study of one movement that is performed by a female protagonist in her 40s.

This is a video study of one movement that is performed by a woman in her 40s, during a sunset observed and registered by a single ultra-slow backward camera movement: the woman comes out of the open front door, steps onto the terrace, looks into the camera, smiles and waves goodbye. The video starts with a close-to-medium frame of the front door, revealing only a small part of the house and its surroundings. As the camera slowly moves backwards, the spectator will sense time passing, reinforced by the time of the day when the last rays of sunlight fade into the total darkness of night.