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Song for Being Alone is a one shot video-performance where sounds and images are brought together within a physical place- no digital editing technique was used. In this space-related performance the sound builds up subtly along a mysterious corridor. The camera discovers this rather unusual place but also plays the role of the listener. The path it follows activate and pass by the sound. Space and distance create a unique sound piece - bounding together both mediums of sound and video in a unique perceptive experience.

Mélissa Faivre, born 1989 in France, is an experimental video artist based in Berlin. Her contemplative and mesmerising work seeks to provoke questions on the nature of perception. Exploring notions of movement, repetition, performance and memory, she creates images that present blended and distorted realities that seek to test the temporal and spatial co-ordinates foundational to the perceptive experience. Mélissa’s videos demand an active viewer prepared to engage with the images she presents. Guided by aspects of performance and action, her films reject easily apparent and conventional narrative structures in favour of a visual-poetic experience in itself.