http://www.drame.org
Buñuel pour le surréalisme, Godard pour la dénonciation, les films expérimentaux américains pour la granulation et le montage... et une bande-son signée Birgé. Il avait alors 21 ans et le monde était autant à explorer qu'à exploser. Un document eu une esthétique.
Alex Dutilh (JazzMan)
In recent years Jean-Jacques Birgé has been acclaimed for his work as a film maker, notably for his contribution to Sarajevo, a street under siege, which won him a British Academy Award for Film and TV Arts, but the story of his career as a director starts back in 1974 with a wild 16mm short film called La Nuit du Phoque that he made as a student at film school with Bernard Mollerat. It is this priceless document of early 70s avant-garderie that Zaharia has had lovingly restored and released on the DVD. Birgé was a classic product of 1968, though he was only 15 at the time – flyposting revolutionary tracts (hence perhaps the opening scene of the film), growing pot on his balcony, namechecking We're Only In It For The Money, the Grateful Dead, Buñuel and Easy Rider. As a student at IDHEC, the French National Film School, he met the absurdly creative and openly homosexual Mollerat, who later committed suicide aged just 24; in La Nuit du Phoque ("The Night of the Seal") they "decided to try everything imaginable"; the 41 minutes are packed to the brim with wild and utterly incomprehensible visual and textual shifts, including special effects, graphic but sensual love scenes, a hilarious Busby Berkeley-style "revolutionary ballet", a superb avant-garde gay cabaret number sung by Philippe Danton – imagine a cross between Rocky Horror and the Trout Mask era Magic Band – and any number of absurd cameos (I particularly like the surprise appearance of Sir Isaac Newton, who scares the shit out of some kids playing in a local park). As a period piece La Nuit du Phoque is unbeatable, and it alone would make an impressive bonus.
Dan Warburton (www.paristransatlantic.com)
The film is good too, a hilarious Dadaist trip through Paris and surrounding environs, with English subtitles and a score that isolates Birgé's more ambient, textural approach to synthesizer and organ sound. The enormity of this reissue is enough to guarantee its appeal to fans of prog-anything, and admirers of Un Drame Musical Instantané will be shocked that a cache this large has eluded them for so long.
Andrew Culler (www.brainwashed.com)
The movie is one that seems to match the music. Translated from French to English, it means "The Night of the Seal". It is very bizarre, and not unlike Monty Python, only this is more edgier. You see everything from an erect penis getting sprayed with silly string, to people being blown up in telephone booths, to Isaac Newton wearing sunglasses and scaring children.
(www.progressiveears.com)
How 'bout that, we just noticed that this reissue of a rare, super-obscure 1975 improv jazz rock record got a 'review' in one of the latest issues of Vice magazine, of all places! But that kinda makes sense actually, since nudity, drugs, n' sex were seemingly all important elements of Birge/Gorge/Shiroc's avant-hippy milieu. That is, judging by the movie on the DVD disc that comes in this deluxe two-disc package, which also features plenty of Vice-worthy fashion do's and don'ts from the freaky French scene back in the mid-seventies! The film in question, La Nuit Du Phoque, is an experimental student opus shot in 1974 by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Mollerat. It's a surreal piece of work that's of course quite dated but certainly amusing and interesting. Political, humorous, psychedelic and very avant garde.
(www.aquariousrecords.org)
http://rapidshare.com/files/315144026/La.Nuit.du.Phoque.1974-SMz.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/315143281/La.Nuit.du.Phoque.1974-SMz.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/315143297/La.Nuit.du.Phoque.1974-SMz.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/315143273/La.Nuit.du.Phoque.1974-SMz.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/315143147/La.Nuit.du.Phoque.1974-SMz.part5.rar
eng hardsub
no pw
http://rapidshare.com/files/318780221/LNPho.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/318781047/LNPho.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/318782496/LNPho.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/318784113/LNPho.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/318785236/LNPho.part5.rar
no pw with eng sub.
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