Si Poteris narrare, licet © LFKs
Si Poteris Narrare, Licet, the first film created for the EVE interactive cinema, confirms the association between cinema and monumental painting that is created by Jeffrey Shaw's invention. It is conceived starting from a cinematographic thinking about painting and, more particularly, of that of the great fresco assemblages of the Middle Ages.
The final film technique arises neither from a neo-classicism nor from a post-modernism, although the construction of its narrative vocabulary will rely on a knowledge of those established long ago for representations of this particular pictorial form. For, the association between cinema and painting is not established so much in terms of the work's creation, but rather in terms of the space of the viewer's perception. Thus the gesture that harkens to the ancient gesture is that of the spectator and not that of the creator. In other words, the visitor to iCINEMA will be put in the same physical position
and emotional state as the visitor viewing a monumental work of painting, but is viewing a film that is created using a non-imitative and entirely original technique.
“If you are able to speak of it, I will allow you to do so.” According to Ovid, this is what Diana said to Actæon, the young hunter having surprised her and contemplated her nude in her bath, before she transformed him into a stag and released him in this form to the carnage of his fifty dogs. The groan of an animal become his only language, doubtless incapable of telling what he saw, of recounting the ultimate experience of seeing which was his own, unable even to call his own dogs and of making them recognize him, Actæon is torn to pieces and dies in the jaws of the pack that had remained faithful for so long.
Using the interactive cinema (EVE interactive cinema) conceived by Jeffrey Shaw at ZKM (softwares: Adolf Mathias, Torsten Ziegler and Torsten Belschner), spectators choose what they want to see of a film in which they are submerged. Both cameraman and editor of each projection, no two spectators see the same film. The sensation created is reminiscent of the discovery, by torch, of the cave-paintings of Lascaux, aside from the fact that here, the images move.
Si poteris narrare, licet is a LFKS film
Thierry Arredondo
Goo Bâ
Pierre Bongiovanni
Jean Michel Bruyère
Pape Camara
Richard Castelli
Jean-Luc D'Aléo
Khalifa Ababacar Dieng
Mbagnick Diop
Samba Fall
Nadine Febvre
Nicolas Ferrier
Marie-Laure Florin
Laurent Garbit
Jan Gerigk
Vincent Giovannoni
Mansour Guindo
Papis Ibrahima Kane
Abdoulaye Keïta
Michel Koelblen
Ibé Konaté
Alain Liévaux
Gilles Marchesi
Fiorenza Menni
Valéry Nadialine
Matthias Olmeta
Joseph Sagna
Mouhamadou Lamine Sakho
Oumar Sall
Issa Samb
Amadou Sene
Assane Sene
Philipp Sichler
Schérif Soumaré
Babacar Sy
Boubacar Tall
Sada Tangara
Patrick Zanoli
Co-production
Epidemic / LFK - la fabriks / ZKM Karlsruhe / CICV - Pierre Schaeffer / Théâtre du Merlan, Scène Nationale de Marseille
Special thanks to Fondation BNP-Paribas and Centre Culturel Français de Saint-Louis of Senegal
With help from Parc de la Villette as part of residence of artists.
