L'Étrange Musique (Larège + Ndox Electrique + J.G. Thirlwell plays Heaven & Earth Magic)
Heaven & Earth Magic
Harry Smith
- 1962
- USA
- Animation / Experimental
- 1h06mn
- Sound
- Black and white
Let’s let Harry Smith summarize his film: “The first part depicts the heroine’s toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel, Montreal, and the second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Muller on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.”
Don’t even think, just dive into this magnificent surrealist trip using cut-out collages with dancing skeletons and flying animals. Everything is a sublime dream, somewhere between the opening credits of Monty Python's Flying Circus (which drew inspiration from it) and Aleister Crowley. An alchemical work of art, a deliciously macabre Victorian inventory that leaves the viewer in a state of weightlessness.
Credits
- Screenplay : Harry Smith
- Editing : Harry Smith
- Production : Harry Smith
Larège
Régine Cirotteau & Manu Siachoua
- France
- 45mn
Parisian premier
The sole representative of the Euphoric Dark Electro genre, the duo formed by Régine Cirotteau (filmmaker, visual artist) and Manu Siachoua (Ultra Zook, Kafka) mixes raw music, cinematic imagery, and performance.
Their concerts are staged in a climate using concrete music as well as organic sounds.
The “exploded” song format is approached like a genre film script, a fairy tale, a sensuous and incantatory music.
Ndox Electrique
- France, Senegal
- 1h10mn
Parisian premier
Ndox Électrique is a possession ritual that finds its origins in Senegalese n’döep ceremonies. It’s a violent experience, solar and dark, feminine and powerful, that invokes the spirits through rhythm in order to cure the contemporary world thanks to traditional incantations, dances and percussions, electric guitars and computers. On stage, mistress healers and musicians make a pact with the spirits. Good intentions aren’t enough: also needed are sweaty dancing and a constant volume to find salvation through music and trance. Once more the walls of auditorium 500 will shake at the Forum des Images…
