Project Description

Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine is an audio-visual collective composed by Christophe Auger, Xavier Quérel e Jérôme Noetinger.

They are considered between the main representative artists of the “expanded cinema” practice. Their performances are based on 16mm film projections (that are played and manipulated live through a series of devices to refract and filter the light, as well as through mechanical modifications and extensions of the projectors themselves) and on live electro-acoustic music produced with reel-to-reel tape machines and analog devices.

Active since 1987, during the years they have gained an absolutely foreground position in the experimental audio-visual scene, having shown their work in Europe, Canada, United States, Japan and Australia.

As a group they have also collaborated with artists like Voice Crack, Nachtluft, Kinobits, Loophole Cinema, Tom Cora, La Flibuste, Le Cube (with Gaëlle Rouard, Etienne Caire, Christophe Cardoen and Lionel Marchetti). Individually each of them has a rewarded career: Jérôme Noetinger as an electro-acoustic musician and improviser and as a collaborator of the the magazine Revue&Corrigée; Christophe Auger and Xavier Querel as film-makers and founders of Atelier MTK cinema production laboratory.

“Thourgh the magic of mirrors, multiple projectors and of a very clever scenic construction, Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine produce and direct a new film at every performance. Working around a narrative core, they dump vortex of unexpected and highly sensitive images, accompanied by the live soundtrack made of tapes and concrete sounds (from field recordings to synthesizers to radio), succeeding this way to literally go beyond the separation between sound and image, narration and sensation, and merging all this in the universe of their performance”.

CASINA DEL PRINCIPE | 31_08_2014