ELODIE PONG

About Secrets
What is a secret? What would you rather keep to yourself? How much are you willing to negotiate for what you have kept hidden? How do you resolve to share it? In the space of a 1-hour film and 9 hours of images shown back-to-back, 300 secrets of a most intimate or amusing, dramatic or childish nature are recalled and told by subjects who have willingly been drawn into the game of selling secrets. Collected and traded in an installation realised in Switzerland and France, they show us a snapshot of our own doubts, shames, mistakes and passing fancies.

Secrets For Sale - Synopsis
Secrets For Sale is the film which reveals the radical ADN/ARN (Any Deal Now / Any Reality Now) experience. ADN/ARN was an interactive installation addressed to one person at the time, in which each visitor was invited to confide and then contractually sell (anonymously on demand) a personal secret. The installation was composed of four units: the waiting room, the preparation sieve, the studio and the cabinet. The visitor/actor followed the protocol of the system under the scrutiny of eight surveillance cameras. In the cabinet unit, after the recording, Elodie Pong stepped in as a performer, negociating the price of the secret according to her interest in adding it to her collection.
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DVD Edition Content
5 DVD set [NTSC, REGION ALL]:
Disc 1 SECRETS FOR SALE (1h04) 2003, videofilm by Elodie Pong
subtitles: english, german, chinese, japanese, french

Discs 2 & 3 SECRETS parts 1 & 2 (5h) recorded at Centre d’Arts scéniques Contemporain Arsenic, Lausanne, December 2001 - April 2002
subtitles: english, japanese, french

Discs 4 & 5 SECRETS parts 3 & 4 (3h57) recorded at Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, April-June 2003
subtitles: english, japanese, french

Distribution
Videocompany www.videoart.ch