Interactive film concert based on Akira Kurosawa's film, "Rashômon". Original composition, "Dodecalite", by Jean-Michel Bossini for flute and percussion. Editing : Catherine Aladenise
Duration : 1 hour
Trailer : https://vimeopro.com/curiosite/marie-laure-cazin/video/138972255

The film "Rashômon" by Akira Kurosawa tells four very different versions of a crime in Heian-era Japan during a civil war. Following the musical movements of the musical composition, "Dodecalite", we have retraced our own version, by re-editing the film on two screens, multiplying the points of view on the action and thus continuing Kurosawa's filmmaking logic.

An interactive device linking sound to image in real time makes the relationship between the musicians and the film palpable and alive. The music provokes nuances of colour and modifies the editing and speed of the images.

A 2 CDM Polychronies production in partnership with Transfictions.
UFR Ingémédia (University of South Toulon-Var), Théâtre Marélios (Toulon) and GMEM Marseille.
Premiere November 2011, Théâtre Marélios, Toulon France.  Version installation, Opéra de Lille, 2011.

For five performers: two actors, a sound effects artist, an accordionist and an editor - Duration: 50 minutes, 2009.
Music by Andrea Cera, Marc Perrone and Tonino Cavallo
Editing by Mirjam Strugalla. Programed with Max.MSP by Pierre Guflet. Sound design by  Mathieu Dehoux. Actors  (film) Laurent Petit and Christine Levoisin.  withe the live voices (on stage) by Karin Adrover and  Maurice Baud. 

Trailer of the film  :
https://vimeopro.com/curiosite/marie-laure-cazin/video/138971683
Sample of the live performance : 
https://vimeopro.com/curiosite/marie-laure-cazin/video/138971681

Synopsis : An attempt at seduction in a cemetery on All Saints' Day. Hope taking shape for the Democratic candidate on election night in the United States. An encounter constantly disrupted by supernatural phenomena.

Interactive  cinema :
Like tarantella players who revive women bitten by tarantulas through trance, the actors, sound designer and musician create the film's soundtrack on stage, breathing life into the images. Reacting to the sound, the film vibrates, changes colour or speed, caught up in a joyful chase with the performers. The characters on screen are then seized by sudden accelerations, or stray into silences, hesitant, floating, as if in a stupor. Also on stage, the editor arbitrates the unfolding of the film, adapting it to the performers' fantasies, or, on the contrary, trapping them in the web of her own desires.

Premere in Le Fresnoy, 25 June 2009.
Cie TRANSFICTIONS, Co-production ARS NUMERICA digital stage of Montbéliard, ATOPIC films, Le Manège.Mons/CECN and Technocité, (CECN2 the ERDF Interreg IV programme, Mons, Belgium), La FILATURE national stage of Mulhouse and LE FRESNOY national studio of contemporary arts. In partnership with CITU and CHARTREUSE national centre for performing arts writing. With the support of CRRAV, audiovisual fund of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, SCAM (2007 multimedia grant) and production assistance from DICRéAM, CNC-Ministry of Culture and Communication.

20’,  colour, sound, French and English versions. Film made out digital photographs animated by a program dedicated to restoring films, called RETOUCHE, 2006.« The sound track of movement » is created by the composer Andrea Cera.
Sample : https://vimeopro.com/curiosite/marie-laure-cazin/video/138971683

Synopsis
Catherine is a librarian. The books echo the moods of the readers buzzing around her. One of them, entangled in his fantasies and loneliness, clumsily tries to approach her. Blossom is that uncertain moment in spring when hailstorms alternate with warm, sunny spells. A vague desire for renewal and excitement drives the male characters.

Image creation
Digital photographs and editing software. Restoration of missing images between photographs using automated interpolation. An imperfect reconstruction mixing real and fake images. (see “The stories of stain 1”)

The sound of movement
To extend the particularity of the image production method into sound, we created a special soundtrack: “the sound of movement,” which consists of transposing the movements observed in the image into sound data. Using this data, the composer created a continuous soundscape that constantly and rigorously transposes the amount of movement in the images. It is a kind of digital “sound effect” to be used during the final mix, in the same way that one chooses whether or not to keep the direct sound recordings in a traditional film production. What we are dealing with here is the “live sound” of movement. The sound materials used to generate these backgrounds are instrumental samples corresponding to the characters in the film and their emotions.

Production Atopic, Paris. Co-production Ars Numerica, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Scientific partner : laboratoire L3i de l’Université de la Rochelle (Bernard Besserer). Granted by the Commission Production Cinéma Région Franche-Comté, 2005 and Dicréam (CNC) 2003.

Selected in the MOSTRA, International Film Festival of São Paolo, Brasil. (short film category) 2006.

Colour, sound, 35 mm, 10' 2003. French and English version, and Spanish subtitled version.
Production Le Fresnoy, Studio national des Arts Conteporains, Tourcoing, France. In partnership with the L3i laboratory at the University of La Rochelle, France.  Use and adaptation of the Retouche software created by Bernard Besserer.  With the assistance of Centrimage for 35 mm kinescoping.

Sample : https://vimeopro.com/curiosite/marie-laure-cazin/video/138971683This film can be consulted in the French National Library collection, BNF :  https://data.bnf.fr/fr/documents-by-rdt/14561318/au/page1

Synopsis
A strange closed-door event takes place in a Parisian apartment on 1 May 2002, during the famous demonstration when the left called for a vote for Chirac against the far-right candidate Le Pen.

Image production
This 35 mm film is not a film. It was made from photographs. The missing images between the photographs were reconstructed using software. This involved the diversion of film restoration software developed by Professor Besserer's team at the L3i research laboratory at the University of La Rochelle. As the software is capable of analysing the movement of pixels from one frame to another, I asked it to ‘restore’ the movements of my characters from one photograph to another. It thus generates imperfect images, where the characters' movements are accompanied by a slight cloud of pixels, which, like a swarm of seamstresses, sew the old image and the new one together.

Selected for international festivals: festival international of Locarno ( section "In progress"), Artronika, Moscow Biennale and many other events.

Colour,  sound, video, betacam, 1997
Production Jan van Eyck Akademie, with Nuffic grant,
The Netherlands.
Diffusion : BDV France

Video, colour, sound, video betacam, 5',  1995.
With a part of the soundtrack of "La notte" by Michelangelo Antonioni
Production Jan van Eyck Akademie,
The Netherlands.

Video and video projection,
Colour, sound, video betacam, 3'30,  1995.
Production Jan van Eyck Akademie,
The Netherlands.