Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
The filmmaker recycles the discarded material from Concertino, a film conceived for a piece for ten dancers by the same name by Catherine Diverrès, a celebration of bodies shaken by emptiness.
A contemporary dance video and a tribute to Patrick Bokanowski. The choreography of Bernardo Montet, conceived and created to be filmed by Robert Cahen, is based on the music of Michèle Bokanowski. It speaks of the loneliness of the dancer in the centre of the stage.
“Specially created for the Rencontre Danse / Image in Chateauvallon, this film is the result of the encounter, confrontation and then the almost miraculous match between the light and violent camera of Téo HERNANDEZ and the dancer-choreographer Bernardo Montet in the midst of improvisation. A...
Tauride reconnects with the myth and the tragic role which it reinterprets. Drawing from this fracture, traversed by the magnitude of its cruelty, Catherine Diverrès prompts reflection that leaves no room for nostalgia or the temptation of prophetism
The outcome of Hernández’ friendship with the dancer and choreographer Bernardo Montet, this work, ranging from black-and-white to color, is the vertiginous record of a cross-dressing act, or a therapeutic performance on identity. Presented for the first time in Rouen, on May 26th 1987.
