II.

This film was made during a residency at the “White House” (hvitahús), an old ice storage building in an isolated village in northwest Iceland. The second part of a triptych that Alexandre Larose has been developing for several years, it is a series of cinematic tableaux inspired by various habitual and imagined gestures/actions performed by his parents. Larose presents some of these scenes as uninterrupted long shots, and others as successions of cut shots. Some feature only one parent, with a particular focus on how they negotiate the domestic space. With these tableaux, imagined in various environments and employing a treatment specific to the medium, the artist seeks to reveal the singularity of the spaces and the movement of the figures, and the relationships between the two.