La
nuit des héros
1994
Réalisation P.Parreno
Scénario P.Parreno & N.Bourriaud
Production Air de Paris / Les films du requin
Film 35 mm
16
minutes color, sound.
Dante is having fun making the big figures of modernity (Cezanne, Duchamp, Klein) speak with the voices of famous personnalities such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Papin, Francoise Sagan...His apartment is an imaginary museum, where each room becomes a reconstruction of a vision that one artist had on the world. Each room thus becomes a 3D Matisse Ç interior È.
Over lunch, his neighbor Beatrice (Delphine Grange) realizes that Dante has definitely entered into a strange state of schizophrenia: the historian becomes possessed by a crowd of people that transform his gaze, that has become bizarre, almost as if someone else was looking through his eyes. Alone in his apartment, he projects his madness into a play. Yves Klein has Jean-Pierre PapinÕs voice while conversing with Lucifer and Warhol starts talking in Francoise SaganÕs voice. During the whole film, Beatrice opposes DanteÕs madness with scenes of everyday life shoot in the neighborhood supermarket: school kids learning about the world, an animator falling in love with the products that he is presenting.
Fiction imprisons Dante, his madness becomes contageous and the Le Corbusier building becomes the stage of an intensive collective hallucination...
