Rouge Ciel tells the story of these artists out of norms, visionaries who set our spirits ablaze and shake up our ideas. It also features the interviews of writers, philosophers, psychologists and art amateurs who have influenced the study of art brut and traces thus the discontinuous thread of its history.
Rouge Ciel, a film that challenges our ideas about art and creation.
The Japanese Kunizo Matsumoto cannot read nor write, yet he has invented a form of writing that is both beautiful and enigmatic.
The American George Widener, who is capable of memorizing events of the last 1,500 years, can also predict the future, which he inscribes in his “magic squares“.
Fernand Desmoulin, a French engraver, draws with no light while the “spirits“ guide his hand.
The Czech Zdenek Kosek sits for weeks, looking through his window, with no food or sleep. In his notebook he records all sounds and movements around him, fearing that if he stops, the world would cease to exist.
The postman Ferdinand Cheval builds on his own, for three decades, his Palais Idéal.
With : Henry Darger / Gabriel Joaquim Dos Santos / Adolphe-Julien Fouré / Zdenek Kosek / Alexandre Lobanov / Helen Martins / Kunitzo Matsumoto / Simon Rodia / George Widener / Purvis Young & les témoignages de : Manuel Anceau / Jean Dubuffet / Phillys Kind / Jean-Louis Lanoux / Randall Morris / Lucienne Peiry / Jennifer Pinto Safian / Barbara Safarova / Gérard Schreiner / Michel Thévoz .
HD/Dolby E 5.1 . 93 minutes . available on DVD . French version PAL . English version PAL . English version NTSC . 20€ + shipping. TO ORDER THE DVD
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
2012
.Museum of Fine Arts Olomouc . Czech Republic . 21 March
.Galerie Rizomi, Turin, 18 & 29 February at 17h.
.Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art . Kobe . Japan . 4 February-25 March
.Cinema Jean Eustache in Bordeaux 13 January at 20h30. Organized by Cinereseaux.
2011
.Cinema Le Méliès in Montreuil (within the program of Ecrans philosophiques, in collaboration with the Collège International de Philosophie and the Cinema Le Méliès)
.International Film Festival Australasia - Barossa, Australie, 26/30 October.
.Musée MUMO, Prague, Czech Republic, 21 September
.Festival of History of Art, Fontainebleau, 29 May.
2010
.International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, Plus Camerimage, Poland, 27 November/4 December.
.French Institute of Prague, 19 November.
.International Film Festival Durban, South Africa, 1/15 November.
.Madness Film festival Toronto, Canada, 5/13 November.
.Chagrin Falls International Documentaries Film Festival, 12/16 October,
Award for the Best Experimental Documentary.
.International Festival of Hamburg, Germany, 30 September/09 October.
.Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, 25 September 2010.
.Artcity Festival 2010, Calgary, Canada, 10/19 September.
.International Film Festival Ireland, 4/11 September.
.Sztukowanie / Festival of Art Gryfino, Poland, 2/5 September.
.Blissfest333, Colorado, USA, 1/30 September.
. International Film & Video Festival Portland, Oregon, USA, 23/28 August.
.Heart of England International Film Festival, Great Britain, 10/15 August.
.I Y F F Port Talbot, South Wales, Great Britain, 3/7 August.
.Seattle International Film Festival, USA, 20 May/13 June.
.Swansea Bay Festival, Great Britain, 7/16 May.
.Bommer Festival, Ukraine, 24 April.
.Geneva Festival, USA, 16/18 April,
Award for The Best Documentary Feature.
.Festivus Film Festival, Denver, USA, 14/17 January,
Award for The Best Documentary Feature.
