Société Réaliste: A Life to See
digital film (885,768 hours), 2012
This new film by Société Réaliste, produced in the frame of “Enacting Populism”, creates a reflection on the relationship between artistic practice and propaganda. “A Life to See” is composed of all the frames of Leni Riefenstahl’s seven feature films. The film is to run for 101 years, the age to which the controversial German artist lived. Thus each still from Riefenstah’s films will be shown for 59 minutes. The oeuvre of the artist is streched over her lifetime, while the totality of the audio scores from the films are compressed over every frame. This relationship based on control and contemplation over an artist’s work is one the longest video piece ever made and it will be streamed online, starting from the day of the opening, on www.alifetosee.net
