Magnetic Fields of Jan Svankmajer is a continuous projection of five short “cult” films by Svankmajer, accompanied by live music performed by the Prague Modern Ensemble, playing an original and unique score composed by me.
In addition, two female sound effects artists who have worked with Svankmajer in the past create in vivo noises for the pictures.
Expanding on the emotional experience one goes through when seeing a Jan Svankmajer film, this materialization of synesthesia extends the space around the screen, filling it with the magnetic vibrations that exist in his pictures.
This is the great team :
KAIROS, Didier Montagné
Kulturní ateliér
Atelier culturel
Atelier culturale
Cultural Atelier
Dienzenhoferovy Sady 2
CZ 150 00 Prague 5
+ 420 725 518 833
I added interludes, in order to integrate the musicians within the visual and thematic aspects of Svankmajer's work.It consists of a series of short vocal and body works based on aphorisms from the Svankmajer Decalogue. Mixing images, sounds, melodies, words, songs, colors and atmosphere, Magnetic Fields wants to be subtle and mesmerizing.
The combination of the screen, stage and auditorium create an organic entity in which the magic specific to Svankmajer's art is brought to life with primitive force, deeply captivating the audience.
F Sarhan, Bertrand Schmitt, J Svankmajer, Olga Čechová
Thus, Magnetic Fields of Jan Svankmajer is more than a film-concert.
It is a total, integrated performance that combines sounds, pictures, songs, words and improvisation with different themes and atmospheres.
Based on the continuous screening of five films, the work is a poly- semous event that catalyzes the attention of the spectator, echoing the many methods that Svankmajer uses to extend his reach beyond the screen, like an alchemist.
Of course the chosen films already have a soundtrack, but this adds a unique musical creation which either replaces the original soundtrack or embellishes it.
The music and sounds enlighten, underline or redefine the meaning.
The use of a central musical theme creates a link between the films, reinforcing the strong unity in the work of a poet for whom methods are superficial.
J Svankmajer, mediumnic drawing
In the end, the purpose is to create a new understanding that challenges the viewer with the same techniques that the films use: destruction, cannibalism, eroticism... Created with the approval of Svankmajer, the performance is at once a special tribute to his great Art and a continuation of the “magical act” which is, for him, animation.
Ensemble Prague
Moderne Gabriela Vermelho voice, quinton
David Danel violin, double bass
Petr "Pepino" Valášek clarinet, bass clarinet
Vojtěch Procházka keyboards, synthesizer
Ctibor Bártek percussions
Olga Čechová, Jaroslava Hlavešová sound effects
contact, information about where, when and how see this show :
KAIROS, Didier Montagné
Kulturní ateliér
Atelier culturel
Atelier culturale
Cultural Atelier
Dienzenhoferovy Sady 2
CZ 150 00 Prague 5
+ 420 725 518 833
