Pour Faire Un Bon Voyage Prenons Le Train

1973
Country: France
Duration: 20 mins
Colour,
Sound: mag stripe
Available Format/s: 16mm

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Music by Red Sunshine.”… a mad film.”- F.Deeth, L’Officiel de Spectacles'”…multiple super-impression whose rhythm has inspired original pop music.” – Jaques Doyon, ‘Liberation’.The railway advertisement To Have A Good Trip Let’s Take The Train, had given me the idea of a speedy violent film with plenty of information, the intensity and speed of which cannot be perceived complacently by the spectator. All this gives an aggression to the film not unlike the actual transport system… the train was a pretext and I started to shoot as though I were using a gun-machine, trains and pseudo amusements becoming all mixed up.While cutting, I discovered that in most of the sections the succession of shots had a rhythm which reminded me of rock. Thus I cut the film according to a ‘rock de-coupage’. After editing, I showed it to my musician friends; Jean-Luis Aubert immediately grasped the mood of the film and in three days composed the sound track with his friends. The final shot was photographed while they were composing.It is a speedy rock, roughly recorded, ‘which makes love with the image’, according to Red Sunshine (who, though seen for only a few minutes, actively participated in realising the film). – A.K.Selected for ‘The French Cinema from the New Wave Today’, Algeria.

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