{"id":1431,"date":"2012-11-25T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2022-11-01T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:29:28","slug":"la-planete-verte-de-piotr-kamler-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/la-planete-verte-de-piotr-kamler-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"LA PLANETE VERTE, de Piotr Kamler (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text and video excerpt below document the book by Philippe Langlois, 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

\"\"<\/p>\n

Somewhere in space, the galaxy RK12 lies 3,000 light years from the Earth, where there is an inhabited planet called \u201cActure the Green\u201d, on which live \u201cthe Actuphages\u201d, whose appearance may be placed somewhere between the amoeba, the flea and the caterpillar, and whose behaviour, in order to avoid monotony, is to change shape ceaselessly: \u201ctell me how you change, and I will tell you who you are\u201d, says the Acture proverb. Although deaf, the Actuphages adore music and also set vibrating the stringed instruments on which they stroll about, which inspires them to change shape. But their main activity is to manufacture time: time to waste, time that does not pass, time to gain, not to mention dead time\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

If, in the context of research into programmes intended for experimental, humorous television entertainment, Plan\u00e8te verte<\/em> prefigures the famous series Shadoks<\/em>, mixing science fiction, pataphysics and humour, this film represents above all, thematically and graphically, an anticipation by almost twenty years of the feature-length animated film that Piotr Kamler made in 1982: Chronopolis<\/em>, with music by Luc Ferrari. Its narrative thread indeed seems to draw directly on Plan\u00e8te Verte, where, just like the actuphages, its inhabitants devote their time to manufacturing time.
It is once again, quite definitely, the notion of the transformation of matter that is at the centre of this short film, made from the animation of white powders. Yet the music of Ivo Malec wrong-foots this notion by using only an instrumental ensemble whose principles of composition are directly inherited from the composition of musique concr\u00e8te. In the manner of \u201cMickey Maousing\u201d, Ivo Malec composes an \u201cillustrative\u201d music that matches the movement of the forms unfolding on screen, locking onto the virtuosity of the actuphages\u2019 transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n