September 08, 2003
The Spirit Of Ecstasy
The Spirit Of Ecstasy visits The Horse Hospital
presented by Anne Pigalle
Thursday 13th November 2003
Doors 7.30pm
"It's as if Edith Piaf was booked into the bar in Star Wars" - Hollywood Music Connection
SCREENING
"Les Vampires" "La Bague qui Tue ( The ring that kills )" Louis Feuillade, France 1915
Suck the blood out of sleeping bourgeois society. Steal their jewels in novel ways.
"Le Vampire" 14 minutes b/w documentary by Jean Painlevé, 1939.
"The Diabolical Cakewalk" , "The Man with the Rubber Head", "Imperceptible Transmutations",Georges Melies, 1901-09.
Poetry and live music set by Anne Pigalle.
SCREENING
"Les Vampires" "La Bague qui Tue ( The ring that kills ) " a 13 minutes episode, Louis Feuillade, France 1915
"That a man of talent, an artist, a director of most of the great films which have been the success and glory of Gaumont, starts again to deal with this unhealthy genre [the crime film], obsolete and condemned by all people of taste, remains for me a real problem." ( Hebdo-Film, 22 April 1916 )
Feuillade’s Paris is a body interconnected by a dizzying network of veins. Characters, good and bad, enter rooms via chimneys, water wells, and paintings, slowly invading their environment and seducing themselves with the act of penetration. A silent serial told in 10 chapters about subversive vampire thieves as they metaphorically suck the blood out of the Parisian bourgeoisie, led by the irrepressible Irma Vep (Musidora), "Les Vampires" is one of France's great classic contributions to the world of popular cinema. Suck the blood out of sleeping bourgeois society. Steal their jewels in novel ways.
"Le Vampire" 14 minutes b/w documentary by Jean Painlevé, 1939.
"Entertainment for the ignorant"
Self-proclaimed anarchist, son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France, Paul Painlevé, and Marguerite Petit de Villeneuve, Painlevé and life-long partner Geneviéve Hamon together pioneered science and documentary filmmaking. Admired by Antonin Artaud, Luis Bunuel, and Jean Vigo, publisher of the only issue of Surréalisme alongside Ivan Goll, Guillaume Apollinaire, René Crevel and Pierre Reverdy, this is his homage to the Brazilian bat with soundtrack by Duke Ellington. Painlevé died in 1989.
Georges Melies shorts,1901-09, "The Diabolical Cakewalk"," The Man with the Rubber Head", "Imperceptible Transmutations".
George Melies. Daddy of cinema. Development of film language based on separate scenes edited together in chronological order.
Poetry and live music set by Anne Pigalle
Anne Pigalle grew up in Paris in the middle of the Punk scene.
She moved to London and collaborated musically with diverse talents such as : Subway Sect, Adrian Sherwood (an EP“ Hot sagas” with Nick Plytas ), Michael Nyman (The “original” Kiss for Channel 4), Trevor Horn (“Everything could be so perfect” ztt records).
She was also behind the creation of “The Wednesday Nights at the Café de Paris” and participated in Japanese commercials. Having pionieered the invention of a new european woman : post feminist, post punk, and slightly emotional, but still in control, Anne left London for L.A. at the beginning of the nineties where she met the late Donald Cammell and got him interested in her screenplay. She has appeared in Zalman King projects.
She got involved in a theatre production about Bukowski where she played Death. She was also voted 5th best live performer of the year by KCRW Santa Monica radio.
Currently back in London, she is working on her autobiography and photographic work as well as recording and perfoming her new songs.
She has never stopped singing, writing, witnessing and is occasionally seen by the river…
New CD " THE NO TITLE AMEROTIC" CD - 2000 / 2003 (including " If Desire is a Sin" broadcasted on Gilles Peterson radio show) is her best work yet with collaborator T.D.S, a mixture of electonic and ballads.
posted by James on September 8, 2003 03:11 PM