“There is always a monster hidden in the films of Marie Voignier, a material or
theoretical entity that cannot be depicted, an adversary of reason whose deafening
rumble affects real situations. This overwhelming subject is systematically off-stage,
protagonists. Whether this monster is a "real" fabulous animal hunted in the jungle,
colonisation or the totalitarian system, it is only ever evoked remotely and fleetingly.
A central but elusive stage phantom. In a sort of devious entomology, Marie
Voignier's cinema finally takes a look at looking itself as if the microscope were to
turn back and explore the eye that observes through it. Showing that there is no
neutrality of observation, her films represent so many critical, sharp but nondirective
visions of a state of the world, which remain open to interpretation, relying on a
ballistic precision and a poetic imagery.”
Guillaume Désanges, "Marie Voignier," in Les cahiers du 19 (L'effet de réel, Fabienne
Bal/andras, Marie Voignier), Le 19, CRAC, Montbéliard, September 2016
a utopia that the spectator experiences by proxy and snippets, via the narrative of the
(2022) both related to her researches and interviews conducted prior to the making
. ...
