La première partie du roi Henri IV de double W. Shakespeare : une analogie
Joëlle De La Casinière
Presented only in theatres.
This film is part of the program Carte Blanche at Centre Pompidou.
Since the 1960s, Joëlle de La Casinière (born in 1944) has been working at the crossroads of visual arts, poetry, and cinema. Nomadism and collective creation have influenced her practice, shaping fluid and lightweight forms. Alongside her friends from the Montfaucon Research Center, she contributed to the production of 22 cinematic and video works between 1970 and 1990.
Filmed in the streets of Barranquilla, Colombia, La première partie du roi Henry IV de double V Shakespeare : une analogie (1972) reflects a dreamlike experience of living theater. Taking as its script the pages of the nomadic album in graphic poetry, Absolument nécessaire : the emergency book, published by the artist the following year by Éditions de Minuit, this film also serves as a laboratory for a new, rhizomatic cinematic writing, where text, image, and sound become inseparable.
Artwork label:
La Casinière Joëlle de
1944, Casablanca (Morocco)
The First Part of King Henry IV by Double W. Shakespeare: An Analogy, 1972
16mm film, black and white and color, sound, 36’15
Acquired in 2013
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle
Additional information:
Co-author: Michel Bonnemaison (deceased April 8, 2006)
Producer: Montfaucon Research Center
Cinematographers: Carlos Ferrand, Bruce Williams
Music: Jacques Lederlin
Distributor: Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels (Belgium)
Cinema
Cinema, Film
Duration: 36’15
Copyright: Joëlle de La Casinière
Inventory number: AM 2013-F8
Insurance value: 0 EUR (19÷12÷2024)
This film is part of the program Carte Blanche at Centre Pompidou.
Since the 1960s, Joëlle de La Casinière (born in 1944) has been working at the crossroads of visual arts, poetry, and cinema. Nomadism and collective creation have influenced her practice, shaping fluid and lightweight forms. Alongside her friends from the Montfaucon Research Center, she contributed to the production of 22 cinematic and video works between 1970 and 1990.
Filmed in the streets of Barranquilla, Colombia, La première partie du roi Henry IV de double V Shakespeare : une analogie (1972) reflects a dreamlike experience of living theater. Taking as its script the pages of the nomadic album in graphic poetry, Absolument nécessaire : the emergency book, published by the artist the following year by Éditions de Minuit, this film also serves as a laboratory for a new, rhizomatic cinematic writing, where text, image, and sound become inseparable.
Artwork label:
La Casinière Joëlle de
1944, Casablanca (Morocco)
The First Part of King Henry IV by Double W. Shakespeare: An Analogy, 1972
16mm film, black and white and color, sound, 36’15
Acquired in 2013
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle
Additional information:
Co-author: Michel Bonnemaison (deceased April 8, 2006)
Producer: Montfaucon Research Center
Cinematographers: Carlos Ferrand, Bruce Williams
Music: Jacques Lederlin
Distributor: Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels (Belgium)
Cinema
Cinema, Film
Duration: 36’15
Copyright: Joëlle de La Casinière
Inventory number: AM 2013-F8
Insurance value: 0 EUR (19÷12÷2024)
| Director | Joëlle De La Casinière |
| Script | Michel Bonnemaison, Joelle De La Casinière |
| Camera | Carlos Ferrand, Bruce Williams |
| Music | Jacques Lederlin |
Session
• Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell
Saturday, march 15, 2025, 03:00 p.m. — 04:33 p.m.
Production
Joëlle De La Casinière
Joëlle de La Casinière (born 1944 in Casablanca) spent her childhood between Paris and Madrid. She became a painter while studying literature before leaving France. For five years, locked away in a room, she painted large canvases based on magazine images, day and night. In 1970, she sold her entire production and her motorcycle to finance her first trip to South America, from which she returned with the material for a book and two films. In 1972, she founded the Montfaucon Research Center with Michel Bonnemaison other nomadic friends and artists fond of graphic poetry. Together they published some of their emblematic books in Brussels. She made other films with her friends, in New York, Lima, Cuzco, Popayán, San José and Montreal, working in particular on the script, sound and editing of a dozen medium-length and short 16mm films. It was during this period that she invented a handwritten, polyphonic style of writing composed of calligraphy, typos, graffiti, ornaments, drawings and collages. From the 1980s onwards, she travelled mainly in Europe and produced many videotapes. In her Tronic Movie Music Poems, animating text and music, play an essential role.
Subjects and devices are often inspired by television genres and their rhetoric. In the mid-1990s, with Michel Bonnemaison and Jacques Lederlin, she restored, renovated and partly built several boats, including the Flemish barge where she lives, sailing the canals of northern Europe… In this floating retreat, she continued making her tablotins and handwritten books. She exhibited her work in Germany, England and France.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Subjects and devices are often inspired by television genres and their rhetoric. In the mid-1990s, with Michel Bonnemaison and Jacques Lederlin, she restored, renovated and partly built several boats, including the Flemish barge where she lives, sailing the canals of northern Europe… In this floating retreat, she continued making her tablotins and handwritten books. She exhibited her work in Germany, England and France.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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In the same session
Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell
Saturday, march 15, 2025, 03:00 p.m.
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