Aurévélateur

by Philip Brophy

with Tekee Tokee Tomak by Martin Wesley-Smith and Passage by Michel van der Aa

Screenings with live performance.

Venue

Luna Cinemas

155 Oxford St, Leederville

Date

7pm, Fri 27th April

Tickets

$25/$20

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Still from Aurévélateur

Still from Tekee Tokee Tomak

Aurévélateur is Philip Brophy’s score to Philippe Garrel’s controversial one-hour silent 1968 film Le Révélateur, performed live with the film. Le Révélateur is a hauntingly apocalyptic film composed in stark black and white contrasts of a man, woman and neglected child in psychological crisis. This family psycho-drama is an infamous internalisation of the tumultuous events in Paris, May 1968. Commissioned by the Melbourne International Film Festival, 2004 and embellished with live keyboards by Philip Brophy and guitars courtesy of Dave Brown, Aurévélateur creates an appropriately dysfunctional sono-drama to match the disjointed beauty of the original film. The score is designed to talk back to rather than accompany the film. It uses the music of the time and since (from Krautrock to Post-Rock) which relates to the ‘European roadmovie existentialism’ signposted by Le Révélateur. The music of Lou Reed, David Bowie, Nico, Neu and Joy Division are overlaid with new, cross-referencing compositions.

“A magical combination of sound and image…. the score is charged with emotion and filled with mythic and poetic grandeur” Bill Mousoulis, Senses of Cinema, 2004

Tekee Tokee Tomak is a portrayal of post-independence East Timor for clarinet, computer music and projected image. Wesley-Smith’s imagery and computer music will be joined live by clarinettist Ros Dunlop. more

Passage is a short film written and directed by Michel van der Aa about an old man trapped in his own house and fighting against a loneliness verging on insanity. The soundtrack for the film is van der Aa’s Just before, performed by Tomoko Mukaiyama. more

A unique live cinema experience not to be missed!