Cinépoèmes live

Pierre Alferi is a novelist, poet and essayist. His writing borrows from music and the visual arts and the cinema. It is notably enriched by certain films with which the author constantly lives. A book, Le Cinéma des familles, bore witness to this in 1999. The writer wished to show this progression and to put it in words and music, for which he turned to his friend Rodolphe Burger. These Live Cinema-poems emerged from this association. In them, the musician improvises on the writing spoken by Pierre Alferi, while on the screen at the back of the stage, like an omnipresent glimmer with a rediscovered aura, stretch the slowed-down and re-edited images of Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, Tod Browning's The Unknown and a few unsuspected cinematographic nuggets. The fascinating memory of the cinema meets, here, in real time, voice and music, text and song, for a show in fusion. ADB

video, text and voice Pierre Alferi
sampler, guitar, vocals Rodolphe Burger

coproduction Compagnie Rodolphe Burger, Wart, Scène nationale de Sète et du Bassin de Thau