the man with a movie camera

2005
with a new electro-acoustic quartet

xavier garcia (keyboards, samplers)
hasse poulsen (guitar, effects)
lionel martin (saxs, effects)
bruno tocanne (drums, percussions)

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2002 / 2004
may 2002 badault - tocanne festival du meslay , workshop about improvisation in chalon/saone nationals chool of music by bruno tocanne - 2002, badault - tocanne - martin trio in aulnay sous bois cinema - 2003... trio bruno tocanne - xavier garcia - lionel martin in "festival des dindes folles" - 2004

1999 / 2001
Creation in 1999 Lyon / France with catherine delaunay , pierre badaroux , eric modeste and bruno tocanne, then in quartet in cinema / villefranche-sur-saone, in"cinema-opera" / lyon - 1999 / 2000, with the tocanne - delaunay duet at the international festival of film of gardanne - 2000, trio tocanne - delaunay - badaroux at the "house of image and sound" in villeurbanne; tocanne - martin - badaroux trio at the cinéma "utopia" in Avignon, romainville... 2001

the man with the movie camera
USSR / 1929
Direction Dziga Vertov
Photo Michaïl Kaufman
Assembly Dziga Vertov and Elisaveta Svilova
black and white. 65 minutes

"It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple." Dziga Vertov

Everyday life of a large ukrainian city / Odessa, through the pilot camera of Dziga Vertov and his brother Michaïl Kaufman to which a total freedom of investigation, imagination and innovation was left. Circling with the four corners of the city at the natural rate of one day, "the man with the camera" crosses a daily space that he transfigures and reinvents. Overprintings, fakings, poetry and dialectical are combined marvelously in this unforgettable masterpiece.

the "movie-eye "
"Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten"
Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups, Dziga Vertov, 1926

The Vertov theories on the "movies-eye" crossed the countries. The "avant garde" scenario writers from germany like Ruttman, Richter; from france like Vigo, Lods; from Belgium like Stork or from england like Grierson... seized some. "The man with the camera" , film improvised in the streets of Odessa which became the most famous work of Vertov, is a treaty of "cinema's extraordinary writing". Vertov worked at least since 1926 on this large aesthetic proclamation designed to be the first shutter of a diptych of which the second part was to be entrusted to his brother Michaïl Kaufman, Elisaveta Svilova, his wife, ensuring the assembly of the unit. The reception which is reserved to him testifies to the major changes that the USSR is living. The distribution of film is voluntarily reduced. Nevertheless Vertov is sent on tour and "the man with the camera" is introduced in july 1929 at Studio 28 in Paris. In a press conference given to this occasion and brought back by Leon Moussinac in "l'Humanité", Vertov summarizes its intentions once more (not played cinema, attention to the facts, creation of a new cinematogarphic language completely distinct from literature and theatre), and calls to the creation of a "radio-eye" which, combined to the "movies-eye" should create "a documentary cinematography sound "

about live music...

The freedom of tone, the absence of scenario, of actors, of under titles, the extremely tight assembly of the images of the vertov's film film and its impromptu character... As many good reasons to stimulate such creative improvised musicians, mixing electronic musics, sound effects and acoustic instruments... Rather than to propose a simple illustration, they chose to invent a new space by proposing a personal and adventurous interpretation of a film which encourage the most daring dashes...
The sound universe wich is created there respects the intentions of Vertov : music is built live, in same time that the scenario writer assembles the images.