Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Lumière Brothers, and Fritz Lang – these are the familiar names from early film history. But it’s just like that really awful British band from the seventies once sang: Who the fuck is Alice (Guy Blanché)? In 1896, Alice Guy Blaché made a film called La fée aux choux (The Cabbage Fairy). It would become the first fictional film in history. Over the following years, Alice became the artistic director of one of the largest film production companies in France. She wrote thousands of screenplays, produced hundreds of films, and was among the first to experiment with sound and color. Today, hardly anyone knows her name.
Director and author Christoph Clausen and musician and performer Mathilde Vendramin create a surreal music theater evening that shifts between silent film, soundscape, and musical installation. Featuring music from Lili Boulanger’s song cycle Clairières dans le ciel.