VILLA MEDICIS 2020
« OR CHE LA NOTTE OGNI COLOR NASCONDE
A GLI OCCHI INFERMI DE L'UMANA GENTE... »
- Girolamo Muzio
Note di Notte is a fable about confinement, repression, and the danger of considering too impulsively art (and the “altered” look it has on the world) as not essential.
A song for freedom and outshining one’s limits, a hymn to madness when normality is no longer a solution. Improbable journeys in times of closed borders, other likely realities beyond the impossibility of real life.
In a castle lost in a dilated night outside space and time, women and men are locked up, watched and kept away from civilization by seven guardians forgotten in the midst of time, seven female figures stuck in self-mourning. Yet, could we repress the very impulse of life?
Note di Notte was first conceived as an in-motion, multilingual, and transdisciplinary performance, customized for the space within Villa Médicis that initiated the project in Rome in 2020. However, the Covid 19 pandemic triggered the project’s reinvention. Thus, not only did it lead to its transmutation into a movie, but also, it left its prints in the dramaturgy and what has become the main thesis of this manifesto-movie that was entirely shot at château de Rosa Bonheur, renowned artist of the 19th century at Seine-et-Marne. The film was completed in 2022, bicentenary of this extraordinary woman’s birth.
The Film
Note di Notte (sous-titrage en français)
Mot de passe : NotesdeNuit
Note di Notte (English subtitles)
Mot de passe : NightNotesBorja
CREDITS
A film by MARCUS BORJA
Original screenplay by MARCUS BORJA, based on Le Città Invisibili by Italo Calvino and the madrigalesque poetry of the Italian Renaissance
Produced by MARCUS BORJA, ALEXANDRE NICOT and MAGDALENA IOANNIDI
DOP and calibration GABRIELE SMIRIGLIA
Editing CÉCILE LAPERGUE
Sound LUC DE LA SELLE, LOUISE LAGABBE and JOHN M. WARTS
Costumes MAXENCE RAPETTI MAUSS
Musical Direction MARCUS BORJA
Assisted by ANTOINE MAITRIAS
Script Assistants MELKI IZZOUZI, ANTOINE MAITRIAS
1st Assistant Director MATHILDE BÉDRUNE
2nd Assistant Director ANTOINE MAITRIAS
Script GABRIELLE DUROUCHOUX
Casting MARCUS BORJA
Gaffer HUGO MICHAUT
Still Photographer ÉMILIE BOUYSSOU
Makeup and Hairstyle AMANDINE AUBRY, LAURA RODRIGUES
Costume Designer Assistants JUSTINE LOUCHART, JOHANNA CACHOIRE, ELISA BEFFERAT
Props Designer ÉMILIE BOUYSSOU
Acrobat advisor JÉRÔME AUBERT
Graphics HAJAR FEKAK
Administration CLÉMENCE MARTENS
With
Capucine Baroni, Émilie Bouyssou, Helena Bregar, Cyprien Brod, Sophie Canet, Geoffrey Carrey, Valeria Dafarra, Ève Doe Bruce, Rémi Fortin, Ayana Fuentes Uno, François Gardeil, Mathieu Gourlet, Magdalena Ioannidi, Melki Izzouzi, Matilda Kime, Antoine Maitrias, Jean-Max Mayer, Alexandre Nicot, Elena Packhäuser, Andrea Romano, Sophie Zafari.
And also with
Simon Aravena, Victorine Badiane, Rémi Bolard, Lola Burbail, Suzelyne Chandon, Constance Chevalier, Beatriz Coimbra, Andrea Colangelo, Marine Cormoreche, Adrien Cortun, Coni Cuneo, Julie Deschryver, Solomon Elechi, Julie Esterle, Anton Euzenat, Roxane Fechner, Marius Fouilland, Eugénie Fragert, Muriel Galéra, Thomas Gendronneau, Tristan Golding, Fabienne Gonzalez, Lucas Gonzalez, Loïc Heurteaut, Matthieu Jeammet, Simon Martin, Tatiana Mironov, Joseph Morgan, Aimé Rauzier, Maxime Seghers, Cecilia Stock, Pierre Sutra, Esther Torsiello
PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS
After its world premiere in Kyoto in December 2021, Note di Notte was projected at the International meetings of Aria (Corsica) in August 2022. It screened every Saturday from November 12th 2022 till February 12th, 2023 at the Collection Lambert (Avignon) within the ¡Viva Villa! – Ce à quoi nous tenons, (What we care About), a biennal of artists’ residencies, born in 2016 thanks to the joint incentive of three French artistic residencies internationally renowned: the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Médicis, the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto and the Académie de France in Madrid – Casa de Velázquez.
“…This program of films produced by or with the assistance of the residencies’ artists reveals astonishing, radical images, inventive narratives and visual constructions.”