愿神原谅我 Dieu me pardonne

This video was made using images recorded between 2001 and 2004. Most of these images were collected during a workshop in which the participants were invited to record their own TV zapping among the channels available worldwide. One "hadith" (i.e. a saying quoted from the prophet Mahomet) about women is used as a unifying thread: "The first look at a woman is for yourself, the second for the devil and the third is a crime." Those looks are directed towards the images generated by TV and show us how repetition effects, slow motion effects along with the poorness of the images in the news turn us into Peeping Toms. Television thus puts us in an ambiguous situation and insidiously triggers an almost erotic pleasure when watching these appalling yet strangely beautiful images.