November 15th 7pm – La Lanterne
RETURN TO REASON
From Man Ray to Jim Jarmush
Man Ray · 2023 · 70’ · FR · Sans dialogues
In 1923, Man Ray improvised his first avant-garde film, a seminal act of experimental technique. This work is titled Le Retour à la raison. He would revisit the experience with Emak Bakia in 1926, L’Étoile de mer in 1928, and Les Mystères du château in 1929.
In 2023, Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, founders of the band SQÜRL, composed the soundtrack for these four films, assembled as if they were a single work, restored on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. The band’s cosmic sounds complement Ray’s work, creating a surreal narrative infused with dark eroticism and playful abstraction, exploring the limitless possibilities of montage.
It also reveals the unprecedented dialogue between two multidisciplinary artists, crafting an unidentified object—a visual music that resonates with modernity and poetry, somewhere between consciousness and the subconscious.