At the end of the year, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse invites film enthusiasts and music lovers to come and discover its new festival, “SYNCHRO”. An event entirely dedicated to cine-concert and silent cinema which will take place from 30 November to 4 December in Toulouse and throughout Occitania. [Partenariat]
Film concerts and silent films have always been part of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse’s DNA. Since the 1980s, the Cinémathèque has continued to revive this form of entertainment in France, notably with the major cinema concerts presented at the Avignon Festival from 1980 to 1985, in collaboration with Christian Belaygue.
Today the SYNCHRO festival promises to pay homage to some thirty masterpieces of silent cinema in Toulouse, in some twenty places in the metropolis and in Occitania.
“Cinema has been silent since birth” according to the writer Tristan Bernard (1866-1947). But was he ever really? With live music, the images have always been embellished by the chords of the musicians who form an inseparable duo.
The SYNCHRO festival invites you to (re)discover silent cinematic works through the eyes of musicians with very different approaches. Piano, electronic music, jazz, rock, all styles will participate in the making of these films devoid of dialogue yet so expressive.
Putting the Mute back on stage: it’s not giving him the floor (which he doesn’t have), it’s giving him the music he’s always had in the rhythm of his editing (and in his debut show)
Jean Paul Gorce, General Delegate of the Cinémathèque from 1983 to 1997
Connections with Louise Brooks opening, The Gold Rush from Charlie Chaplinaccompanied by ICapitol National Orchestra, et Nosferatu the FW Murnauwith Thierry Escaich to the organ, will be one of the thirty treasures of silent cinema chosen for this first edition. See the whole programme
The opportunity to (re)see the great classics and make incredible musical discoveries!
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At the same time, SYNHCRO will offer an exhibition ofGaumont postersstages open at the beginning of the evening, with more experimental proposals, and a playful and participatory installation at the ThéâtridelaCité to explore the musical accompaniment of silent cinema. Learn more
What a reminder that cinema is above all a show and that it is still very much alive!
See you from November 30 to December 4 at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, but also at the Halle aux Grains, the Garonne theater, the Church of the Gesu, the ThéâtredelaCité and everywhere in Occitanie.
France 3 Occitanie is partner of the SYNCHRO festival at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse.
