Christine Rebet interview | Parasol unit, London | 20 January 2020

Christine Rebet – interview: ‘Animation is perfect for critique: it is a minor medium, it’s not film; like drawing is not painting’

Studio International spoke to Rebet at the opening of Time Levitation, her first solo show in the UK, at Parasol unit, London.

Christine Rebet (b1971, Lyon) has been working primarily with hand-drawn animation since 2002, when she secured a grant to visit Berlin and spend time with a team of former East German animators. They taught her how to animate in 35mm, a pre-digital technique that she has stayed faithful to ever since, preferring this medium’s expressive, anarchic potential, as well as its roots in social critique.

For her first solo London show, she has gathered six films that explore the traumas of personal and collective histories, and how propaganda, and the seductions and gratifications of easily consumed media, impact negatively on our identities as well as our environment.

Christine Rebet: Time Levitation
Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London
23 January – 26 March 2020

Interview by VERONICA SIMPSON
Filmed and edited by MARTIN KENNEDY