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Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954 – 78 KENNETH ANGER INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME, 1954 – 78 Dans le cadre de la programmation L’Écran : Sons d’artifices / As part of the programme The Screen: Sounds of Light DOSSIER DE PRESSE / PRESS KIT EXPOSITION / EXHIBITION 4.02 - 03.04.2016 Galerie / Gallery Arnozan 2 COMMUNIQUÉ / PRESS RELEASE James Richard Radio at Night, 2015 12.04 - 5.06.2016 Susanne Bürner legerdemain, 2015 14.06 - 14.08.2016 Joan Jonas Waltz, 2003 23.08 - 2.10.2016 Jessica Warboys Sanni, 2016 13.10.2016 - 8.01.2017 Kenneth Anger Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954 - 78 4.02 - 3.04.2016 L’ECRAN : SONS D’ARTIFICES THE SCREEN: SOUNDS OF LIGHT Cette deuxième édition de L’Écran, programme dédié au film et This second edition of The Screen, a programme dedicated to film à la vidéo, s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux relations entre and video, focuses on the relationships between film and music film et musique à travers des œuvres d’artistes et de réalisateurs through a series of solo presentations of works by international internationaux de différentes générations. Ces œuvres examinent artists of different generations. This programme explores the les liens que ces artistes et réalisateurs entretiennent, de links between music and moving image through different manière tout à fait distinctes, entre image en mouvement et sound strategies used to support film narratives, whether it is a compositions musicales et mettent en évidence les stratégies soundtrack created specially for the work in collaborations with sonores développées pour soutenir la narration, qu’il s’agisse d’une the artist or an existing music. The legendary film Inauguration of bande son composée spécialement en collaboration avec l’artiste the Pleasure Dome by American artist Kenneth Anger opens this ou bien d’un collage de musiques existantes. Le film légendaire du new programme. réalisateur américain Kenneth Anger, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ouvre ce programme. Artists: Kenneth Anger (US), James Richards (UK), Susanne Bürner (DE), Joan Jonas (US), Jessica Warboys (UK). Artistes : Kenneth Anger (US), James Richards (UK), Susanne Bürner (DE), Joan Jonas (US), Jessica Warboys (UK). Curator: Anne-Sophie Dinant Commissaire : Anne-Sophie Dinant 3 KENNETH ANGER INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME , 1954-78 Film transféré en HD, 38 min. Film transferred to HD, 38 min. Figure légendaire du cinéma expérimental américain, Kenneth Anger A legendary figure of American experimental cinema, Kenneth est considéré comme un pionnier sur le plan du montage et de la Anger is considered as a pioneer regarding the editing film process relation entre image et musique. Depuis la fin des années 1940, son and the relationship between image and music. Since the end of œuvre reflète un intérêt pour un certain type de cinéma qui faisant the 40s, his work reflects an interest for a certain type of cinema, abstraction de tout dialogue, défend la notion de cinéma visuel et which making abstraction of dialogues, celebrates the concept of de cinéma muet à travers des films qu’il qualifie lui-même de film- ‘silent cinema’, therefore, Anger creates purely visual films that poèmes, la musique les accompagnant, faisant souvent l’objet de he qualifies himself of ‘film-poems’. The soundtrack accompanying collaborations avec des compositeurs ou de reprises de compositions them is often the result of collaboration with composers or existantes. sometimes uses existing music. Les films de Kenneth Anger privilégient une expérience immersive Anger’s films intend to create an immersive experience for the pour le spectateur. A travers un rapport profond au mysticisme et spectator. Through a deep relation to mysticism and occultism, aux sciences occultes, ils développent une mythologie qui s’associe the artist creates a specific mythology that he associates to his au langage cinématographique novateur propre au cinéaste. Kenneth innovative filmic language. Anger is also, alongside Jean Genet, Anger est également un des premiers réalisateurs, aux côtés de Jean one of the first filmmakers to have promoted the freedom of a Genet, à promouvoir la liberté d’un cinéma gay. Soutenu dans son Gay cinema. Strongly supported in his work by Jean Cocteau, he travail par Jean Cocteau, il recevra d’ailleurs le prix du film poétique received the prize of the poetic film at the Biarritz festival in 1949 au festival de Biarritz en 1949 pour son film emblématique Fireworks for his film Fireworks (1947). (1947). 4 Film culte, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome se déroule comme Widely celebrated as a film cult, Inauguration of the Pleasure une fresque d’associations et de superposition d’images qui célèbrent Dome, unfold as a succession of juxtaposed and superimposed la philosophie Thelema du fameux occultiste britannique Aleister images that celebrate the Thelama philosophy of the infamous Crowley. Le film reflète un état de rêve et de transe, provoqué à la British occultist Aleister Crowley. The film oscillates between a fois par la lumière, le rythme et la bande son dans le but de donner state of dream and a state of trance rendered through the effect au spectateur une expérience de rituel magique. Le titre du film fait of light, rhythm and the accompanying music in order to provide référence au poème Kubla Khan de Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772- the spectator with a ritual magical experience. The title refers to 1834) et met en scène plusieurs amis et proches de Kenneth Anger the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) comme l’écrivain Anaïs Nin ou l’artiste Marjorie Cameron. and Anger asked some of his friends to act in the film such as the writer Anaïs Nin and the artist Marjorie Cameron. Le film comporte plusieurs versions dont une présentation en trois écrans. Celle présentée ici a pour bande sonore l’album Eldorado de This film counts different versions, including a three-screen Electronic Light Orchestra. Défenseur d’un cinéma qui affirme une projection. The sound track of the version presented here is the grande liberté, précurseur du clip-vidéo dans la relation qu’il instaure album Eldorado by Electronic Light Orchestra. As an advocate of entre image en mouvement et musique, Anger a eu une influence a cinema asserting great freedom, and a precursor of the video immense sur plusieurs générations de réalisateurs et d’artistes. La clip in the relation he establishes between moving image and présentation de Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome dans l’espace music, Anger has had a huge influence on several generations of muséal accentue son caractère avant-gardiste pour l’époque, en filmmakers and artists. The presentation of Inauguration of the parfait accord avec les codes des installations filmiques actuelles. Pleasure Dome in the museum space underlines its avant-garde nature for the period, perfectly matching the codes of today film Anne-Sophie Dinant, Commissaire installations. Anne-Sophie Dinant, Curator 5 BIOGRAPHIES / BIOGRAPHIES Kenneth Anger est né en 1927 à Santa Monica. Il vit et travaille Kenneth Anger was born in 1927 in Santa Monica. He lives and à Los Angeles. Ses films ont été notamment présentés à la works in Los Angeles. His films have been shown at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, 2006 ; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New Whitney Biennial; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, in 2009; York en 2009 et à la Biennale d’Athènes, 2009. Ses films sont and at the 2009 Athens Biennial. His films are in many private and dans de nombreuses collections particulières et de musées et sont museum collections, and are regularly shown in experimental film régulièrement montrés dans des festivals de films expérimentaux. festivals around the world. Among other awards, he received “The Il reçoit entre autres ‘The Golden Gate Persistence Of Vision Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award” in 2001. He is also the Award’ en 2001. Il est également l’auteur de Hollywood Babylon, author of Hollywood Babylon, 1975, a book in which he reveals the 1975, ouvrage dans lequel il révèle la face cachée et plutôt sombre hidden rather dark sides of the life of Hollywood stars. de la vie des stars d’Hollywood. FILMOGRAPHY (selection) FILMOGRAPHIE (sélection) 2005 : Mouse Heaven, video, 11min, color 2005 : Mouse Heaven, vidéo, 11min, couleur 2000 : Hollywood Babylon, co-directed with Nico B., 4 min, black 2000 : Hollywood Babylon, co-directed with Nico B., 4 min, noir et blanc and white 1973 : Lucifer Rising, court-métrage, 29 min, couleur 1973 : Lucifer Rising, short-film, 29 min, color, 1969 : Invocation of My Demon Brother (Arrangement in Black 1969 : Invocation of My Demon Brother (Arrangement in Black and Gold), court-métrage, 12 min, couleur and Gold), short-film, 12 min, color 1965 : Kustom Kar Kommandos, court-métrage, 3 min, couleur 1965 : Kustom Kar Kommandos, short-film, 3 min, color 1964 : Scorpio Rising, court-métrage, 28 min, couleur 1964 : Scorpio Rising, short-film, 28 min, color 1954-1978 : Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, court-métrage, 1954-1978 : Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, short-film, 38 min, 38 min, couleur color 1953 : Eaux d’artifice, court-métrage, 12 min, noir et blanc 1953 : Eaux d’artifice, short-film, 12 min, black and white 1950-1972 : Rabbit’s Moon (La lune des lapins), court-métrage, 7 1950-1972 : Rabbit’s Moon, short-film, 7 min, black and white min, noir et blanc 1949-1953 : Puce Moment, short-film, 6 min, color 1949-1953 : Puce Moment, court-métrage, 6 min, couleur 1947 : Fireworks, short-film, 20 min, black and white 1947 : Fireworks, court-métrage, 20 min, noir et blanc PERFORMANCES AND RECENT
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