“Slowdown #1” is the first in a series of experimental videos dedicated to time dilation, where the crossing of an obstacle by three race horses is slowed down to an extreme. As the deceleration increases, space-time is disrupted and the elements, as their mass grows, lose their usual appearance, before crashing into a metaphoric black hole.

About Jean-Michel Rolland

Jean-Michel Rolland is a French artist born in 1972. A musician and a painter for a long time, he melts his two passions — sound and image — in digital art since 2010. At the origin of each of his creations, musicality plays a role as important as image does and each one influences the other by transmediality. The result is a series of experimental videos, audiovisual performances, generative animations and interactive installations where sound and image are so inseparable that the one without the other would lose its meaning.

Convinced that dematerialization of video art is a strength and not a weakness, he allows anybody to access most of his productions on his website: