Macaigne, the Independent Hero of this edition of IndieLisboa, is a multi-purpose being: he talks, dances, performs, interprets… The versatility of this walking “emotions lab” can be observed in the different events of the festival to which you are invited.
In the cycle that IndieLisboa has dedicated to him (11 films screened between 27 April and 1 May), his feature film debut as a director is worth highlighting: Dom Juan & Sganarelle. This film, based on the play by Molière, Dom Juan, ou le Festin de Pierre, and shot in just 13 days, seeks to deconstruct the master-servant dialectic of the famous characters of Dom Juan and Sganarelle. Screened on the 27th, at 21.45, at Cinema São Jorge.
Before the adventure of directing his first feature, Macaigne directed Ce qu’il restera de nous, a look at a family in the hands of what remains following the disappearance of one of them. This short forty-minute film is the main course of the Vincent Macaigne Shorts 1 programme, which also includes Le repas dominical, Les lézards and Moonlight Lover.
Intimate films made with and for friends. To talk about Vincent Macaigne you also need to talk about Guillaume Brac, the director who often calls upon this “sentimental hurricane” in his films. This close collaboration started in the shorts, Le naufragé and Un monde sans femmes, two films that are part of the Vincent Macaigne Shorts 2 programme, taking place at Cinema São Jorge, May 1st at 18.00. Tonnerre is the first feature film of Brac with Macaigne in the lead, embodying a musician before a certain decline of his career, who decides to return to a small town in Burgundy and spend the season with his father.
Macaigne is not just coming to IndieLisboa to present his films. Words take on another depth in the LisbonTalk Through a cinéma des auteurs to be held on April 30th (Saturday), between 18.00 and 19.30, at Cinema São Jorge, Screening Room 2. Vincent Macaigne will be in the company of a panel of guests consisting of actor and director Gonçalo Waddington, actor and presenter Joana Barrios and, moderating, Francisco Frazão, responsible for theatre programming at Culturgest. On the table will be a debate about the issues which bring theatre and cinema together and those which distance them.
Cinema, words and music. Macaigne will play music in the Casa Independente, April 29th (Friday), having prepared a very special DJ Set, somewhere between slow and punk, done deliberately to create a good atmosphere on the dance floor. Before that, starting at 23.00, PISTA will give a concert which will make us look forward to the summer, thanks to their tropical rock and good mood, the most recent example of which being their album Bamboleio.