Thank you thank you thank you for your support.

We may not make our fundraising goals, but we're still moving forward.

There's a bunch of new content up at the EXILE gallery and B-Ville sites, and they're both easier to navigate, especially now that all the videos have pages dedicated to them.

We'd love to stay in touch after the fundraising is over (early tomorrow), so visit one of the sites and subscribe to "entries."

Best,

Kelly & Gregoire

We've reached more than half our goal but only have 16 more days to go. We've asked everyone we know for help. Now it's your turn.

Raise more than an additional $75 and I personally will cater dinner for two if you live in New York, Paris, or Boston.

Best,

Kelly

EXILE’s first exhibit opened in Paris Friday night along rue Piat and rue de Belleville when we began posting stickers of statements 1 through 11 of the B-Ville Manifesto. Check out http://exilegallery.wordpress.com/ for photos.

Posting sequentially, statement 11 fell in front of a butcher shop. "Les villes écrasent comme de gros charcutiers qui fabriquent leurs saucisses. Bientôt ce sera notre tour. La cruauté ne vaut pas la peine. Les étoiles se perdent sur la plage." "Cities grind and like enormous sausage makers produce their wares. Soon it will be our turns. Cruelty is not worth the effort. Stars are lost on the beach."

Our first video showing is scheduled for next week. To find out where and when, follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/exilegallery.

You can finally follow EXILE on twitter!
http://twitter.com/exilegallery .

For more insight into the B-Ville group, check out Grégoire's recent post which includes comments on the Manifesto and the text itself.

It's true EXILE could have started with a sexier project. Maybe something with a political focus that would have a built in constituency. The upraised fist, or blood on the ground. Something provocative. Like filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith. Who may be featured later.

The attraction of B-Ville is that they don't have one. They're neo-minimalist, and not in a particularly satisfying way. They're just the group of the anti-blab. The anti-everything. Videos refuse to move. Words persist in remaining abbreviations. Sentences refuse to extend beyond the phrase. Sound is restrained, ambient and restricted to short bursts. Color is equally muted. You can interpret B-Ville as a form of passive resistance to the world.

Which means that for us B-Ville offers a necessary antidote to an age increasingly defined by excess, the screaming health care "debates" in the United States dominated by the psychotic and deluded, their instapundit counterparts in the online world vomiting equally fantastical opinions, which are exceeded in length and quantity only by the political logorrhea in our other home, France.

Yeah, B-Ville. Why not?

Thanks Amy. First backers will get their swag whether I reach my goal or not. Thanks, thanks, thanks for the support.

And we're making progress getting the B-Ville Manifesto ready to go into the catalog!