Ex Futuro__David Harper

"Existing somewhere between a study of early experimental film and a Norwegian Black Metal music video is Ex-Futuro, a new work by the collaborating French brothers, Florian and Michaël Quistrebert. Though shot on a hand-held, point-and-shoot digital camera, the artists' use of non-digital source material—capturing and layering shadows and hand-cut and animated painted paper—lends an analog look. There is also a clear fascination with both occult symbology and early 20th-century Modernism. Visions of spinning skulls and lines that rotate to form pentagrams populate the piece, and many of the forms seem to reference both Constructivism and Art Deco sensibility. The result is a video that looks historical without feeling trite and wickedly goth without seeming puerile."

Florian & Michaël Quistrebert - Ex-Futuro, by David Harper, www.artfagcity.com

"Old-school with a vengeance, the 2010 video Ex-Futuro, by French brothers Florian and Michaël Quistrebert, mixes monochrome visions of pentagrams, pyramids, and disembodied eyes with interweaving beams of ethereal light. Like TV test patterns from the Great Beyond, the sinuous forms combine a noir palette with psychedelic undulations."

NineteenEightyFour at the Austrian Cultural Forum, by R.C. Baker, The Village Voice, June 8th 2010