Fr, En, Pt

Ce film est une suite de séquences tournées ou trouvées (de – autour des – villes que je fréquente) et qui dans leur montage exposent une fluidité et une continuité qui échappent à la narration. Le montage proposé travaille les séquences selon divers agencements qui respectent le sens possible du film : passage d’un lieu à l’autre, d’un moment à l’autre. Passer, aller d’un po(i)nt à un autre, c’est se transformer, devenir autre. Le film fait appel à des quasi-leitmotive qui relancent le flux et facilitent les transformations diverses de l’épars des sensations. Ce film renoue avec le lyrisme sans pour autant renier le formalisme mais l’utilise autrement, en tenant compte du sens, des sens possibles que produisent les images et leurs enchaînements.

« Musique liquide des passages / sous tous les angles éparpillés / bateau – fontaine – marbre mouillé par une vague perpétuelle et parfois bleue – rives de pierre – pont – temps noirs – poème des glissements au travers des villes. Alban Berg. Silhouette fugace à la fenêtre – ouverte – contre-jour et fer forgé – circulation – leitmotiv – incandescence des tubulures – enchaînement fluide et précis des sensations – diverses / éparses – superbes d’intensité. » Loux.

Son : extrait de Lulu Suite, d’Alban Berg

Œuvre appartenant à une collection privée, aux Archives du film expérimental (Avignon), au Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou) et au Forum des Images (Vidéothèque de Paris).

« Glimpse of cities, countryside, rivers. Intriguing, fleeting images of Florence, London and particularly Paris -clearly the filmmaker’s home, so intense is his vision of it, so strong his attraction to its lifeblood, the Seine. The eerie colors of the bateau-mouche floodlights blend with a purely filmic chromatic intensity. The textures, the meticulous montage, the alluring colors, create something of the same celebration of place through provocative artifice found in Christo’s wrapped Pont Neuf (which is fleetingly seen in the film).
Bringing some of Amoroso ’s Roman passion home to the city which inspired the imposing formality of his earlier films, Beauvais begins to merge the two poles of his works. The synthesis is exciting.  » Scott Hammen.

This film is a series of shot or found sequences (about, of cities that I frequent) which, in the editing, display a fluidity and continuity eluding narration. The sequences are shaped by the editing according to various arrangements which respect the film possible direction: passage from one place to another, from one moment to another.
To pass, bridging one point to another, is to transform oneself, become other. The film employs certain leitmotivs which relauch the flow and facilitate diverse transformations of scattered sensations. This film, although renewing lyricism, does not deny formalism which it uses in another manner, while taking into account the meaning/possible meanings produced through linking images and their evocative passage.

Sound : extract from Lulu Suite, by Alban Berg

Film belonging to a private collection, to the Archives du film expérimental (Avignon), to the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou) and to the Forum des Images (Vidéothèque de Paris)

Este filme é uma serie de seqüências realizadas ou encontradas (sobre as cidades que eu frequento) que, na edição, apresenta uma fluidez e continuidade iludindo a narração. As seqüências são moldadas pela edição de acordo com vários arranjos que respeitem a direção de um cinema possível: a passagem de um lugar para outro, de um momento para outro. Passar, unindo um ponto a outro, é transformar-se, tornar-se outro.

Som extrato de Lulu Suite, Alban Berg.