crippling depths
2025. Essay, English Language
in MACHINE PARALYSIS, A Different Kind of Mobility
Kyklàda Press, Athens
In 1952, gymnast Theophilos Klonaris choreographed the Mechanicos' dance, conceived as a performative tribute to men whose bodies were marked for life by the sea. A dance that has since become a motif for reconnecting the disabled bodies to the social sphere, and that was recently recognised as part of Greece’s “Intangible Heritage.”
With Crippling Depths, an essay published in the collective volume Machine Paralysis, Camille Pradon revisits the tragic history of the sponge divers of Kalymnos. Weaving together intimate narratives, collective memory, and archival material, tracing the physical and social consequences of the use of the diving suit within the communities of the Dodecanese.
The author thanks Adagp and the City of Rouen for their support of research and international mobility in 2023–2024, to Eleni Riga (Office of Hydrocommons x ATOPOS cvc), Nour Amrani & Katherine Li Johnson (Tunis to This), as well as the Klonaris, Pelecanos & Makrillos families.
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texts
Marcel Dinahet. Quatre œuvres
FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, December 2022
Read Online (FR)
Olivier Adeline. Où commence la peinture ?
Point Contemporain, May 2022
Le Gabes Cinema Fen Festival. Terre d'expérimentations
Reporting on the festival's 4th edition, May 2022
Read Online (FR)
Adrien Chevrot. Comme si la pluie
Point Commun, December 2020
Suni Prisco. Accomplir un acte magique
Interview, Point Contemporain, February 2020
Suni Prisco. Phalènes (if you're a moth you better check twice that's really the stars you're looking at)
Crous Gallery, Paris, February 2020
Read Online (FR)
Plongeon de haut vol, 1994 © Marcel Dinahet
Pièges, Series of 3 © Olivier Adeline, picture by Mario Simon Lafleur
Corpus, 2020 © Adrien Chevrot
conversations
2015 -.
Conversations is an editorial project made of interviews with directors and artists whose video-cinematographic works are characterized by a reflection on the places of cinema and its possible links with exhibition spaces and contemporary art.
This research work is driven by the desire to collect new testimonies, in connection with the conceptual and formal issues developed by artists. Their works accompany this attempt to reflect on today's cinema and, more broadly, on how they embrace this question.
Volume IV
Conversation with Marcel Dinahet
Returning to a place that has already been experienced
in "Chemins de la création : Arts et territoires", Various authors.
La Muette, 2021 October
Volume III
Conversation avec Ismaïl Bahri
They unveiled what I could not yet perceive
Jeu de Paume Magazine, 2017 June
Volumes I & II
Master thesis
École supérieure d'art et design de Saint-Étienne, 2015 February
Paperback, 134 p. + Foreword / 25 copies:
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Volume I
Conversation with Sanaz Azari (Belgium - Iran), 2015.
I stopped the course of what I was doing to make a film, so we can say that it is cinema taking over reality
About the movie "I comme Iran" (2014)
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Volume II
Conversation with Marie Voignier (France), 2015
I focus on situations that carry elements of fiction as elements of cinema
About the movies "Tourisme International" (2014), "Hinterland" (2009) and "L'hypothèse du Mokélé M'bembé" (2011)
almanach des ides de mars
2021. Multi-authored book
On an invitation from Chedly Atallah, Léandre Bernad-Brunel, Marion Moskowitz, Sophie Pugnet and Emmanuel Saulnier
Non commercial edition, 1500 copies
architecture as political ghost
2019. Multi-authored book
FIG. -independant architecture review
N° 5 Oxymore
Photographic series and text (FR)
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