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Driven by these suspicions, Rachel and Amanda decide to follow Carole to what they believe is a clandestine corporate meeting. Instead, they discover Carole at a secret "voyeur's party," leading them into a world of hidden fantasies and exhibitionism. Production and Cast Benjamin Beaulieu and Laurent Lévy. etranges exhibitions 2002 benjamin beaulieu

"I walked in at 3 PM. I walked out at 7 PM. I do not remember seeing any art. I remember smelling burnt sugar and hearing a child’s cough from behind a wall. There was no child. There was no wall. I think I loved it." However, given the phrasing and date, you might

The horror was that patrons reported seeing their own memories in the box. "I walked in at 3 PM

He coded his own web browser, called Le Spectre , which would render websites only as source code, refusing to display images. He used brute-force algorithms to generate "corrupted" versions of classical paintings, which he then printed on thermal paper that would fade to black within weeks. His work anticipated glitch art by nearly half a decade. In 2002, the digital was supposed to be smooth, high-resolution, and invisible. Beaulieu insisted it was ugly, failing, and hungry.

Part of his ongoing series on expired film stock, this piece is a testament to the "happy accidents" of analog photography. The chemical burns on the film create a ghostly aura around a nondescript street lamp, turning a banal object into a hovering UFO. It is a nod to the low-budget special effects of the 1950s B-movies that the festival celebrates.

Originally published in the 2002 Festival Guide