Eterniday is an attempt to explore diurnal and nocturnal rhythms of a skatepark over the course of a day.
Notes: George Perec was invited by Paul Virilio to write about space for a project called Species of Space at the end of 1960s. Virilio asked him to work with space as he did with objects in Things. As Virilio reminisces, Species of Spaces was a personal project for Perec, he ” did not talk that much about it to us. He mentioned it, showed us two or three things, but did not really share it with us at all.” According to Virilio, Perec was primarily interested in exhausting time at a particular space. “That is to see ‘real’ grow out of the present. Each return to the site would set the present in motion and make it become another ‘real’. It was an attempt to a new kinf of voyeurism.” In another text Perec produced for this project, Perec took a different approach, rather than time, this time he wanted to exhaust a space. “So he took three consecutive days to grasp everything that passed through the range his perception. So he attempted to record everything, as would a surveillance camera: to record the ordinary, the banal, the habitual. (…) What interested Perec was the potential of the banal to become remarkable, how an ordinary sign can become extraordinary.”
Taking its departure from Perec’s exhaustion of a space in Paris, Eterniday is a feature that finds its anchor point at a skatepark in Montreal at a moment right after the lockdown. By a repetitive structure, Eterniday wants to imagine Joseph Cornell’s idea of “collage = reality” (who was also interested in transcending the everyday in his own unique way) in a new light.
Here is the trailer:
Images: Mustafa Uzuner
Text: Joseph Cornell
Sound: Andrea-Jane Cornell
Shot on 16mm and digital, 39′, 2022