Bouquet film / video 12
Jenny Brady, pizza and Alvin Lucier
La Centrale, Wednesday, November 19 to Sunday, November 23, 2025
For three months, a program of films and videos offers a journey through half a century of moving images, exploring some of the possible articulations between sound, music and image. Through a series of thematic "bouquets" or ones centered on a particular filmmaker or video artist, the program presents the work of emblematic or little-known artists, video art pioneers or film thurifers.
In a dialogue between projected works (room 1) and works on cathode-ray monitors (room 2), between formal, ethnographic and political approaches to sound, the program highlights the uses and practices of the musician's portrait, performance and soundscapes.
Each week, the films and videos disseminate discreet touches, apparitions and motifs, connections between bouquets and nods to the Biennial program: Paganini, a Sony Walkman, Jean-Luc Godard revisited by John Zorn, salt deserts, the Bachmann / Ceresole couple, brass bands and more.
A proposal by Maxime Guitton.
Hall 1
Jenny Brady, Music for Solo Performer
2022, 18', HD video, color, stereo
LUX
Music for Solo Performer is a filmic reinterpretation of composer Alvin Lucier's work for amplified brainwaves, weaving together the original 1969 composition, voice synthesis and the death of the filmmaker's mother. At once an homage to Lucier's piece and a continuation of his ideas, Brady's explosive assemblage of sounds and images - including an electroencephalogram, a telethon presented by Jerry Lewis and the first pizza ordered by synthetic voice - ultimately becomes a pure transmission of cinematic pleasure, a meditation on the relationship between illness and technology, combining pathos and delicacy.
Jenny Brady
Born in 1983 (IRL)
Based in Dublin
Through experimental narratives, Jenny Brady's films explore ideas related to translation, communication and the limits of language, while slowing down our experience of looking at and listening to moving images. Her works seek to reveal potential correspondences between disparate human and non-human subjects.
