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Letters to Doctor L [one part of a 6 channel video installation]

Laurence Favre // Switzerland, South Africa // 2019 // 03:25 min

Synopsis:
"Letters to Doctor L" as presented in the Short Film Walk, is part of a six channel video installation by Laurence Favre. The artist Laurence Favre was invited to present her ongoing research that tends towards an inclusive history, between individual and collective memory. At her request, people closely link to the history or territories of the French-speaking missions wrote a letter to Doctor L, an enigmatic missionary who settled in southern Africa around 1900. She then puts these stories into images, which draws a fragmentary history that is always reinvented. (Intro text in the exhibition at Espace Arlaud, Lausanne 2019 / https://lrncfvr.net/lettres-au-docteur-l/ ) Photo: (c) Laurence Favre