Thursday, October 15, 2009 The Pier at Clermont-Ferrand at 19:30 NO Ballad Marc Oriol (2009)
NO Ballade is an average film that Marc Oriol, videographer and musician, has performed on post-Katrina New Orleans.
After the meeting and a chat with the author, the evening will continue Brind'Zinc nearby where Marc will give a concert at 21:00.
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"NO Ballad": Four years after Katrina, life has returned to New Orleans, but a long black line marking the level of the rising waters recalls the devastating as badly healed wound the extent of the disaster. We measure the extent of damage is often irreparable, any mismanagement of the authorities and also the strength of a musical and cultural tradition extraordinarily hardy, stubbornly refusing to disappear. The melancholy, anger and hope, as many conflicting emotions that arise and that the film Marc Oriol forward without mitigating.
result of several trips in the city's director of Crescent and collaboration Florent Mazzoleni, "Ballad NO" gives voice to many personalities of the musical and cultural shows the persistence of its most emblematic (Including parades, we had perhaps never filmed like that) in a setting now thoroughly upset. Without comment or voice to guide the viewer is held spellbound by the powerful poetic inspiration that sustains the entire film. We must emphasize its aesthetic qualities (the beautiful treatment of light) and the effectiveness of the rhythm of the narrative (the return of the recurring song, The Long Black Line, Spencer Bohren is a success).
The big question about the future of the music of New Orleans that we love so much could be this one: what is the role a musical celebration like no other joy in life to such a disaster? Marc Oriol gives us some valuable elements to respond. Whether through a community voice (in parades) or by creating more individual (one of the great figures of the film is the poet Chuck Perkins ), lightness, recklessness may also be, in some cases, objectives become lucid and profound questions, perhaps questions of survival.
Emmanuel Boussuge (ABS, June 2009)
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