Pavillon Noir

A film by Pierre Coulibeuf

Adapted from a special creation by Angelin Preljocaj

Actors Craig Dawson, Sergio Diaz, Céline Galli

Thomas Michaux, Lorena O’Neill

Zaratiana Randrianantenaina, Nagisa Shirai

And the participation of Angelin Preljocaj

Director of photography Marie Spencer

Sound engineer Jérôme Ayasse

Editor Thierry Rouden

Music Sam Rivers, Noël Akchoté, Tony Hymas,

Paul Rogers, Jacques Thollot “Configuration”(Nato)

Producer Chantal Delanoë

Coproduction Regards Productions (France),

Fine Arts Unternehmen (Switzerland)

With Cityzen Télévision, Images Plus, Centre National

de la Cinématographie, Ministère des Affaires

étrangères, Ministère de la Culture et de la

Communication-Direction de l’Architecture et du

Patrimoine, Centre Pompidou, Procirep-Société des

Producteurs, Angoa, Communauté du Pays d’Aix

Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Programme MEDIA

de l’Union européenne

Support of Ballet Preljocaj

Format 35 mm couleur (frame : 1.37)

Sound Dolby SR

Original language French

Running time 24 minutes

Year 2006

Photogrammes Pierre Coulibeuf

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SYNOPSIS

Parodic fiction by Pierre Coulibeuf based on choreographic proposals by Angelin Preljocaj. The seven characters who move in the architecture of Rudy Ricciotti’s Pavillon Noir break shamelessly with the codes of choreography and cinema: contamination, overflow, distance, – fiction tests reality.

The film PAVILLON NOIR is part of a cross-disciplinary project that, in this case, brings together architecture, choreography and cinema. The work aims to create a space “on the border” (of artistic disciplines and categories as well as of genres of the moving image), exactly where the individuals and things transform themselves, change their status, their identity. As a double or an mirrored image of reality. The disinclination becomes their main characteristic. This other reality is made at times visible by obscure forces in the individual: the drive world causes brusque disturbances to reality, multiple incidents, abrupt breaks of the narrative’s flow. The film’s reality is at the same time strange and familiar. Like little “demons”, the characters parody with drive the fictional stereotypes of cinema or films for the television.

Film Festivals (selection)

29^ème Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand – Compétition nationale Fiction (2007)

16^ème Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France – Compétition Fiction (2007)

Shorts-Courts-Kurz, Washington DC, United States (2007)

19^ème Image Forum Festival-Experimental Film/Video, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Niigata, Sapporo, Japan – International Program (2007)

60^ème Festival international du Film de Locarno, Switzerland – Section Play Forward (2007)

12^ème BIM/Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Genève, Switzerland (2007)

1^er FIAAP – Internacional Audiovisual Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (2008) – Fiction Prize

18^ème Invideo Festival, Milano, Italie (2008)

Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, France, Germany, Spain (2008-2009)

1^er Off and Free Experimental Film Festival, Séoul, South Korea (2009)

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BOOK PAVILLON NOIR – ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ, RUDY RICCIOTTI

The Pavillon Noir, a radical, openwork concrete structure designed by Rudy Ricciotti for the Ballet Preljocaj in Aix-en-Provence, is on its way to becoming an icon of contemporary architecture.To render it, Angelin Preljocaj and filmmaker-visual artist Pierre Coulibeuf imagined choreographic sequences that explore the different spaces.

This unique book blends stills from the film and pages of the interview on black paper cut out in three horzontal strips, blending the voices of the choreographer and the architect with that of writer Eric Reinhardt, philosopher Jeanne Dautrey and astrophysicist Michel Cassé.

Editions Xavier Barral – 2006

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