SCREENING Proposed by the Institut audiovisuel de Monaco

Born in Valence in 1945, Robert Cahen is a pioneer of video art, known and recognised in France and abroad. A musician, he studied electroacoustic composition under Pierre Schaeffer before joining him in 1971 at the G.R.M., a musical research group at the French broadcasting services, who were then experimenting with image production using electronic tools. For fifty years, the video artist-musician has wrapped his films in textures and sounds. Playing with slow motion and freeze frames, his work immerses the viewer in a sensory experience of time and movement.