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CLIQUEZ ICI POUR LA VERSION FRANCAISE
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PRESENTATION
'Dans l'Oeil du Pilote' ['The Eye of the Pilot'] is the live cinema performance project by UK audiovisual group Addictive TV featuring French guitarist Alejandro de Valera. Taking the form of an aerial travelogue, the project remixes the incredible 8mm colour archive of French airline pilot Raymond Lamy, filmed during his travels from continent to continent in the 1950's.
Interwoven with stylised interviews with Lamy, the original footage - which was digitally remastered - is re-worked with graphics to a new and original soundtrack by Addictive TV, which features live guitar from French artist Alejandro de Valera playing his custom-built fretless guitar. The visual and musical journey takes us to places such as Karachi, Ivory Coast, Saigon, Tahiti and San Francisco at a time when travelling with a home movie camera was still highly unusual.
The project
gives a rare glimpse into the beginnings of a world that we all now take for granted - where constant filming with a camera and international travel are the norm. These revealing images taken from Raymond Lamy's private archive give a rare portrait of travelling during the tail end of colonial times. Using hi-tech creative multimedia tools and modern aesthetics, this live cinema performance integrates the old and the new, fusing more than just music and images as it evocatively brings to life film from over half a century ago.
A project supported by Arcadi (Action régionale pour la création artistique et la diffusion en Ile-de-France)
VIDEO EXTRACTS FROM THE PROJECT
[or click here for an extract from the outdoor performance at London's National Theatre]
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PERFORMANCES TO DATE:
- Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
- Villette Numerique, Paris, France
- Resfest, Watershed, Bristol, UK
- Anima05 [animation Festival], Brussels, Belgium
- Nemo Festival, Forum des Images, Paris, France
- Optronica, National Theatre, London, UK [open air event]
- Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne [C/O Pop Festival], Germany
- Le Cube multimedia arts centre, Paris, France
- 50th Cork International Film Festival, Ireland [Cork Opera House]
- Bitfilm, Mojo Club, Hamburg, Germany
- Watermans Arts Centre, London, UK
- STRP Arts & Technology Festival, Eindhoven, Holland
- Tilt Festival, Perpignan, France
- Kabuki Theater 1 - San Francisco International Film Festival, USA
- SIGGRAPH 2006 festival & convention, Boston, USA
- Design Innovation Awards, Moscow, Russia
- Nordik Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
- The Corner House - Now Festival, Nottingham, UK
- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romainia
- EMAF 2007 [ the European Media Art Festival ], Osnabrück, Germany
- Bremen, Germany - November 200
STILLS FROM THE PROJECT
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ADDICTIVE TV BIOGRAPHY
Twice voted #1 VJs in the world in DJ Magazine's annual poll, Addictive TV are the London based group of audio/visual artists and producers who've been championing the art of the VJ and pushing it into mainstream media for a decade now.
Performing their audio/visual shows internationally, criss-crossing the art and club worlds, Addictive TV have played at venues from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to Tokyo superclub Ageha, and recent festivals have included the UK's Glastonbury and Denmark's Roskilde.
In 1999, Addictive TV set up what is acknowledged as the world's first visuals-focused DVD label, releasing DVD albums fusing music and images. Releases have included 'Audiovisualize' and the 'Mixmasters' series from their seminal music television show in the UK, which has seen over 300 artists commissioned, including many of the best names in electronic music and a host of international VJs.
Also, in collaboration with UK's National Film Theatre and the London IMAX cinema and curators Cinefeel, Addictive TV organise Optronica - the visual music festival dedicated to the audio/visual genre.
"Melding elements of graphic design with a sound designer's sensibility
and a taste for eye-catching celluloid booty, these mixmasters and
musicians create something otherworldly and all-encompassing
from behind their Kraftwerk-style wall of synth-and-video-modules."
XLR8R MAGAZINE
"At the forefront of the audiovisual revolution,
Addictive TV is widely acknowledged as
one of the world's finest AV ensembles "
RES MAGAZINE
ALEJANDRO DE VALERA BIOGRAPHY
Guitarist and composer Alejandro de Valera, originally from South America and now based in Paris, heads his own electronica project The Nebulae of Something. He specialises in composing for and playing his rare custom-built fretless guitars - he's one of only a few guitarists working with this instrument (he designed and had built all his own ones). He also creates sound designs for Radio France International (RFI) and is a long time collaborator of Addictive TV, performing and working on projects including the ITV1 and DVD series 'Mixmasters'.
:: FOR MORE INFO ON THE PROJECT ::
Please contact Francoise Lamy at francoise @ addictive.com
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