Joelle de la Casinière
2021The First Part of King Henry IV of Double V Shakespeare: An Analogy
Michel Bonnemaison, Joelle de la Casinière
Shot in Barranquilla on the Caribbean coast in Colombia, The First Part of King Henry IV of Double V Shakespeare: An Analogy (1972) testifies to a dream experience of "Living Theater" a lived analogy of The First Part of King Henry IV of Shakespeare. In an Elizabethan decor of white colonnades, ruined and sumptuous, the street characters imagine themselves in an open-air play. Inspired by the pages of the book Absolutely Necessary: The Emergency Book, a nomadic album in graphic poetry published" by Joëlle de La Casinière in 1973 at Éditions de Minuit, the film embodies the idea, already germinating at the time, of the work: multimedia, which combines the written word, image and sound.
The First Part of King Henry IV of Double V Shakespeare: An Analogy
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Joelle de la Casinière
Joëlle de la Casinière herself, barefoot against an abandoned and ravaged metropolitan background, promotes her book ’Absolument nécessaire’ (‘An Emergency Book’) during an interview/happening with a broadcast delay. “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. In the end the books are covered in graffiti like subway carriages.
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