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The objective of this (audio-visual) project is to account for the cultural subjection exerted by the international American policies.

The invention of official musics dates from the beginning of the XVIIIème century. The works of this kind are baptized "political musics" and testify to the aspiration to a tangible collective identity. It is the moment when the modern world of the nations occurs. The use of the choruses symbolizes the national collective which shapes and is indicated with itself. Today, the socio-economic borders fall. We live a distillation of the national values. The cultural planning often influenced by capitalist stakes dilutes the feelings of membership of the civic company. Paradoxically, it assimilates the citizen to the political decisions. To mark the singularity of this contradiction, I intend to portrait only one individual at the same time. The "God save the King" (the United Kingdom) and "the Marseillaise" (France) are the two most important models of the "modern" anthems. They can cause the singularity of the nations and the universality of mankind. The Italian anthem of Mameli/Novaro and the "Deutschland German Lied" are more recent. They however are inhabited by the tradition of the Western lyric drama of the opera. For much, the traditional opera was considered until avénement of the cinema the only "total art" mixing music, dance, literature, théatre and visual arts. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the opera is the catalyst and the promoter of the whole of Western arts. It would have been annoying to draw aside from my step these two important factors, one political (God... and the Marseillaise) and the other of cultural origin (the opera). Of course, "O Canada!" us comes immediately to mind in this type of work.

Flooded by the American "mass media" our cultural difference even in higher quality, invading it output of our neighbors cannot compete. It is interesting to compare the accent of the French version of "O Canada!" with that of "the Marseillaise".

I propose 6 courts vidéos based the following anthems; "O Canada!" (translation in French and English), Marseillese (France), God save the Queen (Great Britain), the anthem of Mameli/Novaro (Italy) and the "Deutschland Lied (Germany)". "the Amer anthems" is located between the universal one of the policy and the singular of the right of expression. It is an image which wants to cause political interpretations, but always in the ambiguity. To be aesthetic, this musical "object", undoubtedly unique in its extreme appropriations,recognizes the right to art to comment on the politic, it admits "readily" that a "poetry" can be constituted like a thought.