"This wheel under which we turn is like a magic lantern. The sun is the lamp; the world is the screen. We are the passing images" - Omar Khayyâm

A veritable magic of the "optical rite", the live cinema of Vincent Moon, visionary nomad of planetary music, offers a new approach to ceremony. Live cinema is a performance combining live cinema, music on stage and in the projected films, and the search for a new hybrid format of relationship with the spectator. Each performance is a unique combination of film and music, based on Petites Planètes recordings. A new show is born every night. In a way, Vincent Moon has crossed the boundary: whereas most of the time the digital filmed image or the image composed by software accompanies the musical performance, here it becomes the very source of the musical act. Through a long, hypnotic possession, it reinvents the context of a music that accesses its environment and the energy of the sacred.

Vincent Moon is an independent filmmaker and sound explorer. He was the co-creator of the Blogothèque‘s ‘Concerts à emporter’ devoted to Western indie music. For more than twenty years he has been a nomad, travelling the world with a camera on his back, documenting popular and sacred music, trance ceremonies and sound experiments for his Petites Planètes Collection, which to this day includes more than 1,300 films, all published in open source.

In search of a contemporary form of connection with the image, breaking away from Western narrative while questioning the hybridisation of our digital practices, his ‘Live Cinéma’ opens up to another way of thinking about the relationship with the spectator. An optical ritual, a call to the personal unconscious hidden behind our collective images, an endless research into contemporary trance, Vincent Moon’s ‘Live Cinéma’ is an intense visual and sonic improvisation based on the entirety of his musical research around the world.

At the heart of his approach for sharing and experimenting, as an endless quest for the beauty of the world, the ´Live Cinéma´ is also an ongoing critique of all forms of ownership and borders, in complete transparency. A performance adapted to the venue, it sometimes involves local musicians and artists who take part in this game of magic mirrors held up to reality.

A serial collaborator, Vincent Moon performs this time with long time friend and fellow experimental maverick Dali de Saint Paul: a raw experimental vocalist, a performer, a composer, a producer and cultural actor of the Bristol experimental music scene.

In her music, Dali’s particular use of vocals through fx blurs sonic borders, questions gender stereotypes and destabilizes spatial and linguistic borders; as lyricist, she mixes poetics and politics bringing intensity to her performances.

Come bear witness to the magic lantern