43rd edition of the Banlieues Bleues jazz festival in Seine-Saint-Denis. On the program this afternoon: Vincent Moon.
Vincent Moon films music with the same ease with which he breathes. Disillusioned by both the music industry and the hyper-individualization of Western societies, the co-founder of La Blogothèque radically changed course about ten years ago to become a nomadic videographer. Since then, he has roamed the globe, camera in hand, determined to reveal other music, other voices, other cultures.
In his monumental collection, Petites Planètes (Little Planets) — 1,600 open-source films — he has immortalized local musical traditions, secular and sacred practices, trance and healing rituals captured in areas often overlooked by cultural maps. “From one ceremony to the next, I understood that music is the first medicine,” he confides.
This conviction — music as a collective force that connects and harmonizes — is something he shares with audiences through unique Live Cinema performances that blend projection, improvisation, and immersive experience. For Banlieues Bleues, he envisions a performance-installation on four screens, open to all ages for six hours, conceived as "a constellation of worlds far removed from global normalization".
In his monumental collection, Petites Planètes (Little Planets) — 1,600 open-source films — he has immortalized local musical traditions, secular and sacred practices, trance and healing rituals captured in areas often overlooked by cultural maps. “From one ceremony to the next, I understood that music is the first medicine,” he confides.
This conviction — music as a collective force that connects and harmonizes — is something he shares with audiences through unique Live Cinema performances that blend projection, improvisation, and immersive experience. For Banlieues Bleues, he envisions a performance-installation on four screens, open to all ages for six hours, conceived as "a constellation of worlds far removed from global normalization".
