Evening co-curated by Pannonica, Le Lieu Unique and Mire.
To celebrate the contacts in experimentation between music and cinema, three structures collaborate in a joyful exercise of cross-programming.
The starting point – proposed by Pannonica and Le Lieu Unique – : Ghosted, musical project both ethereal and abundant born out of the collaboration of three renown figures of the improvisation international scene, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin.
From there, out of a vast panel of possibilities, Mire guides intuitively its selection around two common threads : a formal one pertaining to a certain singularity of sonic and visual apparatus, and a thematic one pertaining to transitional states between anchorage and elevation.
An evening skimmed with mysterious apparitions, luminous trails and weightless urban chimeras.
ATTENTION: Program modified from the paper brochure – the performance by Joey Alexis Singh & Jim Jasper Lumbera – whose european tour has been postponed – has been replaced by the one by Natalia Koziel-Kalliomäki.
Warm Data, live performance by Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki (CA/FIN)
2023 / 2 16mm projectors + overhead projector /music by KuuPuu / 23′ / suggested by Mire
“Step into the bustling streets of Toronto through the small-scale project designed as live expanded
cinema, where the visual narrative unfolds in layers of urban information captured entirely on 16mm
black and white film to tell the story about city symphony.
Entitled “Warm Data,” it shows deep into the fabric of the metropolis, where every frame pulses with
the city dynamics and offers another dimension of understanding to what is typically learned only
through quantitative data, (cold data). Here, two 16mm film projectors are joined by an old, school-type overhead projector. I use this
machine like a puppeteer tool, where I rhythmically animate folded silhouettes of paper that echo the
shapes of the city. Adding a kaleidoscope of filters, I fill in the simple black-and-white frames of the
film with colors, textures and mesmerizing patterns. With live projections and hands-on
manipulations, I carefully orchestrate the pace and flow of the story.”
Ghosted – Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling et Andreas Werliin, suggested by Le Lieu Unique et le Pannonica
“Andreas Werliin, Johan Berthling et Oren Ambarchi sont aujourd’hui des figures culte et reconnues de la musique expérimentale mondiale. Ensemble, ils créent un univers qui conjugue instrumentation épurée et explorations sonores débridées. […] Fort de deux volumes discographiques, Ghosted I & II, le trio se rassemble dans un espace mouvant où se croisent le jazz, la musique africaine, le drone et la musique psychédélique. Façonnée au fil de nombreux concerts, l’incarnation scénique de Ghosted ne cesse de se renouveler, faisant appel aux talents d’improvisateurs des trois musiciens et à une direction musicale dont la concision laisse émerger un groove suprême.”
Thunder by Takashi Ito (JP)
1982 / 16mm / color / sound / 5’ / suggested byBAL
“Thunder woman illuminating the night. (Y.G.)”
Ghost by Takashi Ito (JP)
1984 / 16mm / color / sound / 6’ / suggested by Mire
“I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long exposures. I filmed this in the company dorm I was living in in the middle of the night after I had come home from work, and thought I might die from what had become my daily pattern of sleeping for two hours in the morning then going off to work.” – Takashi Ito
Morphologías fluctuantes, performance by Barbara Ghidini, Antonio Bértolo & Alfredo Costa Monteiro, ES
expanded cinema / 4 x 16mm projectors / water, oscillators, photoelectric cells, radios / 35’ / suggested by Craterlab
“And the towers will collapse, presaging new chimeras.
This piece slowly expands into a triptych that, through pendulum movements,
evokes not only a temporality without beginning or end, but also a state of
transition.
This perpetual movement reveals traces of human activity in the form of post-
industrial landscapes that did not survive the passage of time, carrying within them
the omen of a change to come.
A change towards natural horizons that in their opposite rectilinear movements
recalls the circularity of time, accentuated by the materiality and texture of the
rocks that are a symbol of durability and permanence.
The sound, obtained with several oscillators connected to three photoelectric cells,
adds very subtle sonic transformations, depending on each of these movements.
This device here is used in a way that does not disturb the fluidity of the images,
thus creating a very intricate relationship between what is seen and what is heard.
And little by little that materiality is dissolving, finally becoming air.”