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The Cinematophone 

An electro-lyrical marching band for a diva and eight “sound bodies”

Creation 1994 / reactivation 2018

  • Moving electro-lyrical performance
  • Duration: 51mn
  • Capacity: up to 1500 people
  • All audience

They are eight musical automatons, dressed like soldiers, with heavy make up, smiling and wandering. Half flesh, half loudspeakers, they conjure up surprising sound images in the open space.

In their midst, a gracious and fragile diva seems lost and is looking around. Dressed in a long 1900s robe, a heavy pearl necklace and a medusa-like hat made of 35mm film, she wanders about, her mind lost in her own thoughts. Her mysterious gestures seem to indicate a direction which the automatons accept as theirs. Sometimes chaos erupts, the automatons assail the diva or scatter in all directions.

Are these hybrids the accidents of the monstrous coupling between a record player and this diva who, in the lead, seems to be making them replay sound pieces from her memory, her dreams, her fantasies? Or is she simply the conductor of a disordered, disturbed marching band, survivors from a vanished universe performing film episodes of her life?

Not a word is said; simply an extremely surprising and complex score blaring out from each automaton’s loudspeaker: marching band, opera, waltz, animals cries, even disrupted telephone conversations. A fascinating procession during which the identity of the diva remains hidden while the attitudes and postures of the soldiers will leave many in awe.

A bright and poetic event, a momentary and turbulent dream, a very curious story, a revelation which disapears without the obligatory salute in a rave of applaud.

Production : Oposito and Décor Sonore

Partners of the 2018 re-activation : Spedidam and Ile-de-France Region

History of performances

2021
BONDY (93) – Festival Regard Neuf 3

2019
BAR-LE-DUC (FR) – Festival RenaissanceS
SARTROUVILLE (FR) – Festival Au-delà des Toits
CARBONNE ET BOULOGNE SUR GESSE (FR) – Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne
GRAZ (AUT) – Festival La Strada
FELINES ET ANNONAY (FR) – Quelques p’Arts

2018
LEUCATE (FR) – Festival Sol y Fiesta
GARGES-LES-GONESSE (FR) – Les Rencontres d’ici et d’ailleurs
AMIENS (FR) – Festival La Rue est à Amiens
BREST (FR) – Les Jeudis du Port
CERGY (FR) – Festival Cergy Soit !

Et avant cela…

2007
GOYANG CITY (Corée du Sud)
SAINT NAZAIRE (FR) – La grande marée

2006
PARIS (FR) – Festival Onze Bouge

2003
SALON-DE-PROVENCE (FR) – L’année des 13 Lunes

2001
CHANTILLY (FR)
ATHENES (Grèce) – Festival Odyssée
MORLAIX (FR) – le FAR

2000
CANNES (FR) – événement pour l’agence Saatchi
SAINT-GAUDENS (FR) – Les Pronomades
MONTRÉAL (Canada) – Festival Juste pour Rire
MONTREUIL (FR) – inauguration du Salon du Livre

1999
PARIS (FR) – Inauguration de la ligne E du RER, Gare Magenta
GRAZ (Autriche) – Festival La Strada
LOIPERSDORF (Autriche)
SOWETO, ALEXANDRA, JOHANNESBOURG (Afrique du Sud)

1998
PARIS (FR) – Le Hall de la chanson
ZUG (Swisse) & PARIS(FR) – Convention Peugeot
POZNAN (Pologne)
JELENIA GORA (Portugal)
OOSTENDE (Belgique)
SIDMOUTH (UK)
NEWTON ABBOTT (UK)
PLYMOUTH (UK) – Streets of South West 98, National Street Arts Festival
PARIS (FR) – événement Handicap International

1997
VALLADOLID (Espagne) – agence Arteanima
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNES (UK) – Inauguration du “Solitaire”
PARIS (FR) – Inauguration du magasin FNAC de la gare Saint-Lazare
MONTREUIL-SOUS-BOIS (FR) – Intérieur rues
DOETINCHEM (Pays-Bas) – Stichting Straattheater Festival
DREUX (FR)
STOCKTON-ON-TEES (UK) – Stockton International Riverside Festival
DORNBIRN (Autriche) – Impuls Festival
SETE (FR) – Les Joutes de Sète
PARIS (FR) – Convention Olympus aux Beaux-Arts

1996
SOTTEVILLE-LES-ROUEN (FR) – Viva-Cité
SAINT-GAUDENS (FR) – La Saint Gaudingue
CHALON-SUR-SAONE (FR) – Chalon dans la rue
GAND (Belgique) – Straattheater European Gent Festival
NEERPELT (Belgique) – Theater op de Markt
LE BLANC-MESNIL (FR) – le Forum fait sa place
SURESNES (FR) – White Night
PÉRIGUEUX (FR) – Inauguration de la Maison de la Culture F. Miterrand
EDIMBURG (UK) – Hogmanay

1995
CALAIS (FR)
NOISY-LE-SEC (FR) – Rencontres d’ici et d’ailleurs
VILLEURBANNE (FR) – Eclanova
AURILLAC (FR) – Eclat
BREST (FR) – les Jeudis du Port
LA COURNEUVE (FR) – Rues de l’Humanité
CHOISY-LE-ROI (FR)
LES ULIS (FR)
PARC ASTÉRIX (FR)

1994
BAGNEUX (FR) – Fête des Vendanges
BREST (FR) – Grains de Folie
CLAYE-SOUILLY (FR) – Festimagic

The team

Staging  : Jean-Raymond Jacob, Martine Rateau & Pascal Le Guennec (cie Oposito)
Musical score  : Michel Risse (cie Décor Sonore) & Pierre Sauvageot
Costumes  : Fabienne Desflèches & Philou Jacob

Show for 9 interpreters and 1 sound technician 

Production : Oposito and Décor Sonore

Partners of the 2018 re-activation : Spedidam and Ile-de-France Region

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