JÉRÔME BEL
KEEPING TALE OF CURRENT TIMES | JEAN-LUC GODARD - VISUAL WORK
WITH LEONOR SILVEIRA
JERÔME BEL | 2021 | 120’
With Leonor Silveira
Jérôme Bel (2021), with Leonor Silveira, is part of the parallel programme of the exhibition Keeping Tale of Current Times - Jean-Luc Godard Visual Work.
With Isadora Duncan, Jérôme Bel drew up the danced portrait of a choreographer for the first time, after having concentrated exclusively on the life of the dancers. For this new creation, which he describes as ""auto-bio-choreo-graphic"", he lends himself to his own exercise and delivers his personal account of a life of dance.
Where the film Retrospective operated a transversal cut in the work of Jérôme Bel, this creation reconstitutes its linear logic, declined according to a necessarily subjective glance. The choreographer’s performance address, alone on stage, responds to the broadcasting of filmed archives and reactivates the memory of gestures, scores, and biographical facts that the discourse comes to put in correspondence. The eponymous project of a founding piece of his repertoire, Jérôme Bel is not so much a return to the initial point, nor even an assessment made after the fact, as a genealogy of the driving forces of his work, where the personal is linked to the artistic and political. Jérôme Bel tells his story for the first time, sharing his doubts, his commitments, his failures as well as his infatuations. Combining narrative and meaning, the piece articulates fragments of his life, his career and his intellectual project to reveal their common structures.
Florian Gaité
(for the Festival d’Automne à Paris, 2021)
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Leonor Silveira has a degree in International Relations from Universidade Lusíada, and has a post-graduate degree in Cultural Heritage Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Her acting career began in 1989 with Manoel de Oliveira's film Os Canibais, and since then she has worked on all of the director's projects, her last work as Sofia was in the film O Gebo e a Sombra. She has also worked with directors like Luís Galvão Telles, Joaquim Pinto, Paulo Rocha, Vicente Jorge Silva, João Nicolau, João Botelho, Serge Trefaut, António Botelho, Anabela Moreira, Francisco Botelho, Carlos Conceição and most recently with João Canijo, who won the Silver Bear at Berlinale 2023, with the film Mal Viver. He has also worked with Brazilian directors Marco Dutra and Caetano Gotardo on the film Todos os Mortos, which was part of the official selection for Berlinale 2020. His work and performance over the years, especially in the Portuguese film scene, has earned him several nominations at the most diverse events that reward acting and cinema. In 2015, she was awarded the Bárbara Virgínia Award by the Portuguese Film Academy. She has also been present at numerous Portuguese and international film festivals, such as Cannes, Queer Lisboa, San Sebastian, Doclisboa, Locarno and more recently at Annecy - Int Festival of Animation, among many others.
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