{"id":1099,"date":"2012-04-10T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:27:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:27:39","slug":"zero-de-conduite-de-jean-vigo-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/zero-de-conduite-de-jean-vigo-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"ZERO DE CONDUITE de Jean Vigo (1933)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text and the video excerpt below document Philippe Langlois\u2019s book, Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, 2012.<\/p>\n

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In this autobiographical film, Jean Vigo depicts the hardships, joys and dreams of life at boarding school. He rebels against the authority of teachers and against paedophilia, mocks the representatives of the state, and goes so far as to fly the black flag over the roofs of a public institution. Moreover, the proclamation of revolt and the provocations of the film ultimately mobilise the members of the censorship commission, who ban the film. This censorship would last until 1945. This ban was obviously linked to the revolutionary ideas contained in the script, but, more insidiously, it punished the family tie that bound Vigo to his father Miguel Almereyda, a notorious anarchist imprisoned in 1917 and found dead by suicide in his cell.<\/p>\n

Zero for Conduct<\/em> is a fiction film by Jean Vigo that traces life in boys\u2019 boarding schools at the dawn of the 1930s. The return to boarding school is made by train, which becomes the pretext for the film\u2019s opening scene. The sequence is entirely guided by the soundtrack, which is at once film score and sound effects for the incidents unfolding on screen.<\/p>\n