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PARIS, 1923 - MAN RAY IMPROVISED " LE RETOUR À LA RAISON"

FIRST OF THE FOUR FILMS HE HAD CREATED.

PARIS, 2023 - SQÜRL PERFORMED A SEMI IMPROVISED SCORE TO THE MAN RAY FILMS.

RETURN TO REASON

FOUR FILMS BY MAN RAY

MUSIC BY SQÜRL

ONE

THE STARFISH

A POEM BY ROBERT DESNOS

AS SEEN BY MAN RAY

Women’s teeth

are objects so charming…

…that one ought

to see them

only in a dream

or in the instant of love.

Farewell

Si belle! Cibèle?

We are forever lost

in the desert of eter-darkness.

How beautiful she is

After all

if flowers were made of glass

if flowers were made of glass

"beautiful, beautiful like

a flowers of glass"

"beautiful like

a flower of flesh"

You must beat the dead

while they are cold.

The walls of la Santé.

And if you find on this earth

a woman whose love is sincere…

"beautiful like

a flower of fire"

The sun, one foot

in the stirrup,

nestles a nightingale

in a veil of crepe.

You are not dreaming

"how beautiful she was"

"how beautiful she is"

beautiful

TWO

EMAK-BAKIA [LEAVE ME ALONE]

cinepoeme

BY MAN RAY

PARIS 1926

The reason for this extravagance

THREE THE RETURN TO REASON

FOUR

MYSTERIES OF THE CASTLE OF THE DICE

TO THE VISCOUNTESS OF NOAILLES

I DEDICATE THESE PICTURES

WHICH CAN NEVER REVEAL

THE EXTENT OF HER KINDNESS

AND CHARM. MAN RAY

HOW TWO TRAVELLERS ARRIVED

IN SAINT-BERNARD,

AND WHAT THEY SAW

IN THE RUINS OF AN OLD CASTLE

ABOVE WHICH STANDS

ANOTHER CASTLE OF OUR TIME.

THE TRAVELLERS:

MAN RAY, J.-A. BOIFFARD

"A throw of dice

never will abolish chance."

Far from here, in Paris.

"Are we leaving?"

"We are not leaving."

"We are leaving!"

Where are we going?

The gates of Paris open

onto the unknown…

…at full speed,

up hill and down dale,

across France.

Prestigious,

as if marked by the seal

of a strange destiny,

a castle…

Star of the day.

The intruder.

No one.

No one.

No one, NO ONE!

The secrets of painting.

Then resounded

for the first time

in these rooms,

this question,

this human question:

"Where are we?"

"Let’s get out of here."

And so the night came.

But upon daybreak.

Unusual,

left in a forgotten corner:

"A throw of dice…

…never will abolish…

…CHANCE."

"Are there ghosts of deeds?

...Ghosts of our past deeds?

Have the minutes that we lived

left a tangible trace

in the air and on the earth?

The Woman…the juggler.

Eve undersea.

The deities of white water

Let their hair flow.

Screening-pool.

MENE - TEKEL - PARSIN

Do you regret the time

when the sky upon the earth

Used to walk and breathe

amongst a people of Gods,

Where Venus Astarte,

daughter of the bitter wave…

Helmeted Minerva.

Go ahead, you must follow

That beautiful shadow that you want

O! Sleep, O! Sun, my life

will be subjected to your laws

And I will close my eyes

once you disappear

Beautiful star of love,

beautiful star of inebriation…

This was when two travellers

arrived in this place.

They went up

onto the terraces.

Two travellers

who were looking for…

Two travellers who stayed?

Two travellers

who didn’t stay?

Two travellers who stayed.

…"But when

the second night came"…

…WHO STAYED.

THE END