Blood of the Beasts + Voilà pourquoi j’aime le vin + Bêtes en miettes
Author Muriel Pic has created several films inspired by Georges Franju's Blood of the Beasts, an unparalleled work shot in the Vaugirard slaughterhouses. During her visit to Montreal, we will present two of her films, Franju's masterpiece as well as Sylvain L’Espérance's flamboyant Animal macula.
Followed by a conversation with Muriel Pic, moderated by Stéphane Lépine
Fierce parallel between bucolic Parisian suburbs and brutal slaughterhouse footage.
This film is linked to the documentary novel En regardant le sang des bêtes (2017), itself written using Georges Franju's documentary Le sang des bêtes (1949). Featuring a French song, Pourquoi j'aime le vin, the film replays Franju's archives not from the viewer's side or the animal's gaze, but from the point of view of the slaughterhouse workers who sang as they performed their terrible task.
Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I travel seventeen kilometers of archives in search of beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title Bits & Pieces. But for me, these are the crumbs, from our feast of beasts.
