What is a secret? What would you rather keep to yourself? How much are you willing to negotiate for what you have kept hidden? How do you resolve to share it?
In the space of a 1-hour film and 9 hours of images shown back-to- back, 300 secrets of a most intimate or amusing, dramatic or childish nature are recalled and told by subjects who have willingly been drawn into the game of selling secrets. Collected and traded in an installation realized in Switzerland and France, they show us a snapshot of our own doubts, shames, mistakes and passing fancies.

Secrets For Sale (64min. - 2003) by Elodie Pong

Secrets For Sale is the film which reveals the radical ADN/ARN (Any Deal Now / Any Reality Now) experience.

ADN/ARN was an interactive installation addressed to one person at the time, in which each visitor was invited to confide and then contractually sell (anonymously on demand) a personal secret.

The installation was composed of four units: the waiting room, the preparation sieve, the studio and the cabinet.

The visitor/actor followed the protocol of the system under the scrutiny of eight surveillance cameras.

In the cabinet unit, after the recording, Elodie Pong stepped in as a performer, negotiating the price of the secret according to her interest in adding it to her collection http://www.boxproductions.ch/secrets/blog/index.php.

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