Mouchette: a digital artwork that explores identity

Description of Mouchette


Mouchette is a website which is created by an artisit. The website with a big picture for background. Most web pages have flower's picture. There are some sentences and words on each page. In the first page, a few sentences introduce who Mouchette is. Each sentence with a box for visitor to tick. I guess it aims at asking visitors whether they believe the sentences. Also, a young girl's picture appears on the upper left corner. It is very strange to see that some ants are walking around the page. Also, visitor can hear a sound of crying.
The colour of each page is different but all are vivid and bright. Some pages have repeating a same picture to create pattern and movements.


The work is about....In fact, the true identity of the artisit is unknown. Mouchette(the website) is based on Robert Bresson's 1967 film, Mouchette(film). It is about a girl who is raped at night and then she committed suicide. So that Mouchette(website) is expressing some feelings from the girl(The film character). The website arouses a controversy of child sexuality. Somehow the content and the sound in the website would provoke visitor's sexual sensation. To me, the first impression is very strange. The sounds are quite thrilling  and erotic. The repeating, huge and vivid background on the pages make me feel unsafe and horrible.


Reference from: https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Mouchette