Composition and Technique Residency.
The strange fascination we feel toward all the things that frighten us is a driving force behind a fertile imagination.
What is this mechanism, and how can we tap into it? How can we embrace fear in order to surrender to beauty?
In the center of a room plunged into darkness and silence, a light mist blankets the dark floor and the sprawling wiring that winds around the machines. A clicking sound can be heard. It rotates 360 degrees around the audience, who are encircled by the sound system. The saturation of primitive senses such as sight and hearing is necessary to stimulate the imagination. The idea behind this is to create an environment conducive to letting go, thanks to the “supernatural”: technology.
PHOSPHORE BLANC is an audiovisual allegory of the monsters that lurk in the imaginations of dreamy teenagers, where all our visual and auditory cues are disrupted by our fear of the unknown and our acceptance of the supernatural.
Here, technology serves as a spectacular ritual, a boundary between rationalism and esotericism.
A sacred, introspective, acousmatic, and luminous trance, where fear, excitement, and naivety become the keys to a liberating transformation.
Maurice Lebrun
Composer
A car body repairman at age 17, Maurice spent his time hanging around auto repair shops and construction sites before discovering film as a means of expression. He notably worked with Pip Chodorov on “Free Radicals,” a film about experimental cinema created by Jonas Mekas, Maurice Lemaitre, Maya Deren, and others.
This breath of freedom within a medium as rigid as mainstream cinema inspired and encouraged him. The pursuit of images became a way of life. Shortly thereafter, within the Kloudbox collective, he found the team and resources he was seeking to create using a wide variety of media—from artistic video installations to photographic documentary projects, and from independent film to live sound and musical performances on stage.
Maurice Lebrun
, composer