Jean-Baptiste Georjon

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Most of the time, shifting is something people do after nightfall. Luna and Ether have experienced a few symptoms but have yet not managed. Pauline has succeeded once without really expecting it, while Fato and Tristan have found a method of their own that they now master effortlessly thanks to sleep paralysis. In effect, shifting is like temporarily taking leave of our world. Somewhere between meditation and self-hypnosis, consciousness enables the body to thought-travel within a desired reality. Using a script, shifters determine in advance the nature of their environment, their short-term objectives and their vocation in this world that will be there for them for as long as they wish. I suggested that five shifters meet up and try the experiment together. All that remains is to find the right method to achieve this and collectively test the reality of an elsewhere formulated on common ground.

Jean-Baptiste Georjon

Born in Saint-Étienne and based in Paris, Jean-Baptiste Georjon is a filmmaker, video artist and photographer. Trained in the social sciences (Université Lumière Lyon II), photography and video (Arts décoratifs de Paris) and exhibition curating (Beaux-Arts de Paris), his artistic research pays particular attention to documentary images – whether archival, found or gleaned – and the ways in which they are disseminated, transmitted and shared. He is interested in the potential for fiction that emerges from documentary situations, and more particularly in the conditions of existence of events, news stories and communities in the broadest sense.

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