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Camera Lucida 2022
Filmstill We Had the Day Bonsoir
We Had the Day Bonsoir
Narimane Mari
Narimane Mari dedicates a touching portrait that tells of parting to her now deceased companion, the artist Michel Haas. A contemplative tribute to love.
Filmstill We Had the Day Bonsoir

We Had the Day Bonsoir

On a eu la journée bonsoir
Narimane Mari
Camera Lucida 2022
Documentary Film
France
2022
61 minutes
French,
English
Subtitles: 
English

Narimane Mari dedicates a touching portrait that tells of parting to her now deceased lover, the artist Michel Haas. She captures first and foremost the small, everyday moments – street scenes, working at the studio, watching films together, reading to each other in bed. The absence of a traditional narration, long shots and intense conversations invite us to think about our own relationship with temporality.

A recurring potpourri of poems, prose and music by Nâzım Hikmet, Stéphane Mallarmé through to Sun Ra gives the film its very own leisurely rhythm. The scenes at the studio are carried by this mood, too. As with Jackson Pollock, the art is created mostly on the floor. But Michel Haas works with ink, large-format paper sheets and hot water instead of canvas and thinned paint. Humming happily, he hits the soaked paper with his bare hands until edges, creases and folds form. The abstract outlines and flat shapes are recognisable as figures only when viewed from a distance: Often, they are intertwined couples. A contemplative tribute to love.
Samuel Döring

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Director
Narimane Mari
Cinematographer
Narimane Mari, Nacer Medjkane
Editor
Narimane Mari
Producer
Narimane Mari
Sound
Antoine Morin, Benjamin Laurent
World Sales
Pascale Ramonda
Camera Lucida 2022
Filmstill When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories
When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories
Éric Baudelaire
An opulent film collage revolving around the works of composer Alvin Curran and the human need to look towards music for orientation in the world.
Filmstill When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories

When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories

When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories
Éric Baudelaire
Camera Lucida 2022
Documentary Film
France
2022
59 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

The kidnapping and murder of the politician Aldo Moro; four slashed tyres that were to save a florist’s life; the lost soundtrack to Antonioni’s film “Zabriskie Point”; the meeting of two avant-garde composers; archive material and found footage – these are the elements of this “freely composed” film that is imbued with the city of Rome and juxtaposes the human urge for constant rebellion and the thesis of the end of history.

For the US electronic composer Alvin Curran, whose intellectual and artistic world are at the centre of Éric Baudelaire’s exceptionally rich collage, music is a vehicle that carries us to places we have never travelled before. In Rome, where Curran settled in the 1960s, he met his then considerably more experienced professional colleague Franco Evangelisti, who shocked him with the question: “Don’t you know that there’s no more music to write?” Baudelaire’s congenial montage of image and sound fragments suggests that Curran’s solo work – as well as his collaboration with the pioneering collective “Musica Elettronica Viva” – is the answer to Evangelisti’s question: We have to keep reassembling the world.
Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Éric Baudelaire
Cinematographer
Éric Baudelaire
Editor
Claire Atherton
Producer
Éric Baudelaire
Sound
Éric Lesachet