Music on picture
La promesse de l'écran presents : La musique sur l'image, edited by Sylvie Eyberg (assisted by Olivia Degrez). Unpublished bonus by Géréon Schlösser.
Cinéma Corso, Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 2 hours. All audiences.
First opened by Pierre Leguillon in Paris in 2007 at the invitation of "architecturespossibles" (Christian and Pascale Pottgiesser), "La Promesse de l'écran" (The Promise of the Screen) is a retractable device as much a projection as a performance, which has taken many forms, adapting to a wide variety of public and private architectures. Sessions are devoted to aspects peripheral to cinema: credits, posters, recurring motifs, etc., or propose looking towards the screen from another medium: poetry, painting, drawing, music... As a full participant in DVD culture, films are rarely projected in their original format, but rather reproductions, from which extracts are viewed, enhanced by bonus features, sometimes performed live.
As the title suggests, the montage proposed by Belgian artist Sylvie Eyberg at Corso not only presents an anthology of scenes, some of them emblematic of the Hollywood musical, but also shows what music "does" to the image, how it works it, reminding us in passing that the fabric of the cinema screen is covered with micro-perforations to let the film's sound through.
"When I asked Pierre Leguillon if there was a Promise of the Screen dedicated to musicals, his answer took the form of an invitation: he made me promise to make it myself. When someone opens their home in this way, it becomes a meeting place, a public space. Musicals aren't a popular genre with everyone, but they're a common sight on the streets. The screenplay is often a mere pretext, the image constructed for the musical moments. The movement of the camera, that of the dancers and the rhythm of their steps, then take us through the thickness of the set, from the space of the street to that of the backstage area." S.E.
With Sylvie Eyberg, Pierre Leguillon and Géréon Schlösser.
