"MILITARY SUNSET" - 2023

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Digital color video installation, 76 archive photographs - 5'16

In partnership with ECPAD (Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense) 

Coproduction Pompidou Center/Hors Pistes 

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​Entirely composed by images produced by military operators in war zones, the artwork recomposes endlessly the cycle of a sunset. In contrast to the meaning generally associated with it in the collective imaginary, here, the sunset refers to a specific genre of military representation. The images are combined with a soundtrack of anonymous and intimate testimonials from soldiers deployed on field operations. Hélène Mutter confronts and questions the reality on the battlefield, close to fear and death, with this crucial question: what happens after the war?

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