L'Oeil ecoute (The Eye Hears) 1970, Bernard Parmegiani

LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 5
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Concrete Cinema
aka GRM (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales) Films

1 SCREENING ONLY
Saturday 13th July, 3.30pm
Cinema 1 Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square
$12/$9 Concession

Curated by Jim Knox

THX: Sue (BFI), Matthieu (AAA), Daniel & Bernard (INA-GRM), Chantal & Sidney (French Embassy), Cerise, Scott, Marcos, Phil S.

The finest, freakiest of French animation and video art and all with stunning electronic ("musique concréte") soundtracks by international guest Bernard Parmegiani. Grown in the wilderlands of unloosed imagination, these films are as unalike to Hollywood cinemanure as is the elusive octopus to a fecal-obsessive orangutan.

Full program below...

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Introduction: by the soundtrack Composer, Bernard Parmegiani...

Jeux des anges (Game of Angels)
1964, 16mm, colour
9 mins
Walerian Borowczyk
print source: BFI

Le Dictionnaire de Joachim (Joachim's Dictionary)
1965, 16mm, colour
8 mins
Walerian Borowczyk
print source: BFI

L'Oeil ecoute (The Eye Hears) - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
1970, SP Betacam, colour, stereo
25 mins
Bernard Parmegiani
video source: GRM

Le Labyrinthe (Labyrinth)
1970, 16mm, colour
12 mins
Piotr Kamler
print source: ACMI/French Embassy Collection

L'Ecran Transparent (The Transparent Screen) - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
1973, SP Betacam, colour, stereo
19 mins
Bernard Parmegiani
video source: GRM

Le Pas (The Step)
1975, 16mm, colour, mono
7 mins
Piotr Kamler
print source: AAA production

Une Mission Ephemere (An Ephemeral Mission) - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
1993, 35mm, black & white, stereo
10 mins,
Piotr Kamler
print source: AAA production

screening: 1 hour 30 mins duration