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29TH GIFF: ELECTRONIC MUSIC ICON JEAN-MICHEL JARRE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

The 29th edition of the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF, November 3 – 12) will pay tribute to the legendary composer, performer, producer and creator of immersive Experiences, Jean-Michel Jarre. He will be presented with the Film & Beyond Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music and the digital arts, and will be giving a masterclass (November 7). Jean-Michel Jarre will also be attending the world premiere of his latest immersive creation, The Eye and I (Jean-Michel Jarre and Hsin-Chien Huang, 2023, TW), which will be shown in the Virtual Territories immersive park.

Source: https://www.giff.ch/en/9thgiff-electron ... -spotlight

Hope we'll get more info on The Eye & I in the coming couple of months.

Jean-Michel Jarre will present his new immersive creation at GIFF

Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre is the guest of honor at the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) to be held from November 3 to 12. The French artist will present "The Eye and I", an immersive experience dedicated to control and surveillance.

Jean-Michel Jarre will accompany the world premiere of his latest immersive creation, "The Eye and I", which he made with Taiwanese artist Hsin-Chien Huang, the GIFF said in a statement on Wednesday. Finding its source in the first sense of the word "surveillance" which, in English, originally referred to "eyes in the sky", this immersive and collective experience is interested in the omnipresent control in contemporary society.

Prize and masterclass

The Frenchman will receive the "Film & Beyond" award in recognition of his exceptional contribution to music and the digital arts.

The musician, to whom we owe the album "Oxygène", will return to his extraordinary career and his interest in new technologies during a public masterclass on November 7. He has been responsible for promoting the metaverse by the French National Center for Cinema and Animated Image for a year.

Sources:
https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/musique ... -giff.html
https://www.tdg.ch/jean-michel-jarre-a- ... 20novembre.

THE EYE AND I
WORLD PREMIERE
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, HSIN-CHIEN HUANG
TAIWAN, FRANCE
BIG BROTHER IN TRANCE
2023, 40'
VO. ENGLISH
An enigmatic odyssey in which Jean-Michel Jarre and Hsin-Chien Huang lock us into a deconstructed digital prison system to question our free will.

Official trailer: https://2023.giff.ch/en/film/the-eye-and-i/

I am a lot more intruigued by The Eye and I than the Oxymore Works album. While some of those remixes are good (Adiescar Chase, Irène Drésel) and one is fantastic (French 79) the others are really quite weak. The most disappointing are those from NSDOS and Brian Eno; both fall flat.

Meanwhile, this collaboration seems to offer something really special. The visual work of Hsin-Chien Huang seems to fit well with JMJ's approach to sound design. And they both have Laurie Anderson in common:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsin-Chien_Huang

Yeah, not gonna lie, the music in the trailers sound pretty good.

Also much more intrigued by this project than Oxy(more)works... need something new!
It's promising.

Kanta wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:23 pm

Looked up his Wiki page, Hsin-Chien_Huang also worked with Laurie Anderson.

Kanta wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:23 pm

Interviewing the other eye from the cover of Pink Floyd's Pulse with Chronologie 4-esque imagery in the background: Nice!

(Coincidentally, one of the flashing words in the C4 music video is "PULSE" )