trois bonnes raisons de suivre le festival Musical Écran
With a plethoric program (how to see, in theaters, 30 different films in seven days), music screen is an invitation to get to know artists on the margins of the major circuits.
Here are three good reasons to look at the menu of the festival, which will be held from November 7 to 13 in Bordeaux.
1. Go closer to the artists
The six films selected in the official competition are all portraits, and examine artists from very different worlds. “Courtney Barnett Anonymous Club” required three years of filming in the footsteps of the Australian singer and songwriter, a sensitive and endearing personality. Presented as a French preview, this doc will open the festival.
We can also follow Isaac Mutant in the twists and turns of the history of South African rap, look into the case of Pone, the iconic Marseille producer and co-founder of the Fonky Family, discover the case of the Californian electropop duo YACHT (“The Computer Accent”), look back on the incredible career of the Brazilian pianist Dom Salvador, aged 84 and still active, or see how the Dutch National Opera tackled the twenty-nine hours of “Licht”, an out-of-format opera of Stockhausen.
2. Listen to funny stories
How did punk-rock emerge on the New York scene in the mid-1970s? What does musician Charli XCX, crossed with Rihanna or Christine & the Queens, want to say when she films herself H24 during the pandemic and the gestation of her 4e scrapbook? And the “New Romanticism”, developed in London by Boy George or Face (“Tramps”, by Kevin Hegge) just after the explosion of punk, what does it say about England in the 1980s? Questions of this kind, Musical Screen addresses many. And even offers a fresh and very comprehensive look at the reason that prompted the Beatles to work in India in early 1968 and the controversy that followed.
3. Meet witnesses
They will be at least seven, activists from the French craft and alternative press to explain their action, after the screening of “Fanzinat: passions and stories of fanzines in France”. To remind the American Marin Alsop fought against the establishment of classical music to become a conductor, Victor Thibaud, at the baton of Josem, will come to answer questions.
Also expected, the directors of “Punk: once upon a time Gilles Bertin”, “Can & Me” on the cult krautrock group, “The Sound of Cologne”, “16 place Vendôme”…