[VID] Video installation, dvd loop, 2008 courtesy Jousse Entreprise, Paris The Screening is both a performance and the film it features. “One night, in a forest. Owls, furets, foxes... The usual activities of the beasts are disrupted by rays of lights: it’s a group of humans. They gather in front of a white surface onto which, when it’s dark again, shadows start moving.” This synopsis is both the narration of the what appears on the screen, and the one of the whole evening: An audience is guided into a forest by torchlight. They sit in a glade, before a screen, and a film projection starts. At first reminiscent of a wildlife film, as it progresses a certain continuity with the truth emerges, people having the feeling of watching themselves on screen - the film, The Screening, depicts the situation as experienced, but from the specific viewpoint of the natural, surrounding world. It's a ‘mise en abyme’. Not quite a duplicate, it is, rather, a distorting mirror, one that stretches reality from behind the bushes.