DISCO FUNERAL
Studio Martyr (FR)
CHRONIQUES CRÉATION
Transdisciplinary project, performance and virtual reality
PRATICAL INFORMATION
Fri 17 Jan 2025
VR Experience: 2pm to 7pm
Duration 17 min.
Booking via chroniques.org
CHRONIQUES CREATION
Performance: 9pm. Duration: 45 min.
DJ set: 10pm to midnight
Salle Seita
Friche la Belle de Mai
FREE, booking required:
DISCO FUNERAL VR is an invitation to experience 15 years of mourning and 15 hours of partying in 15 minutes. The experience immerses visitors in a large-scale 3D party among spectres, where they can share the intense and contradictory emotional states experienced during the long process of coming to terms with their passing. Fifteen minutes of melancholy and ecstatic pleasure to go through all the stages of grief that brought us together. The DISCO FUNERAL installation is also activated by a performance. The DJ makes his final adjustments, and a ballet of real and imagined figures parades around the casket. All have come to pay their last respects to the person they loved the most… Kim Kardashian has just arrived.
Credits & mentions
DISCO FUNERAL VR
With the support of Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, in partnership with CNC With the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée As part of Plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS, supported by DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Région Sud Provence- Alpes-Côte d’Azur and the city of Marseille.
La Fruitière Numérique
Paume
Kitchenette
DISCO FUNERAL PERFORMANCE
Production: Studio Martyr
Coproduction: CCN-Ballet national de Marseille as part of Accueil Studio / Ministère de la Culture, Les Ateliers Médicis – Creation in progress
Supported by Artagon Marseille, Artagon Pantin, Le Point Éphémère, SOMA – Lieu d’art hybride (Marseille), Tremplin Propulsion (Les Plateaux Sauvages), Théâtre de la Reine Blanche, Nouveau Gare au Théâtre, CHRONIQUES – Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques
Distribution
DISCO FUNERAL VR
Production: Toni Films
Producer: Nérimen Hadrami
Direction and script: Studio Martyr (Adriane Breznay and Julien Ticot-Guillet)
Art Direction: Nathan Ghali
3D artists: Nathan Ghali, Elies Jurquet
Junior 3D artist: Aitor Garcia
Additional 3D modeling: Lisa Manchau
Animation: Juliette Costes
Prototype research: François Gouret, Lisa Manchau
Music: Seul Ensemble (Luca Bonanno)
Sound design: Kitchenette
Sound designer: Jony Guedj
VR mix: Benjamin Martin
Sound production assistant: Paxie Hà
Post-production studio: Paume (Tuan Ho)
DISCO FUNERAL PERFORMANCE
Direction and dramaturgy: Studio Martyr (Adriane Breznay & Julien Ticot-Guillet)
With text by : Julien Ticot-Guillet
Acting: Adriane Breznay, Dina El Guebali and Julien Ticot-Guillet
Musical creation/Live: Seul Ensemble (Luca Bonanno)
Set design: Studio Martyr and Clémence Hoffmann
Costumes: Héloïse Bouchot
Lighting design: Paolo Morvan
Movement assistance: Marion Zurbach
Outside view: Léa Romoli
Acknowledgements: Inès Musial, Emeric Cheseaux, Salomé Romano, Lisa Cesaro, Madeleine Georges, Bernard Ticot
Artists
Studio Martyr
Studio Martyr is a multidisciplinary structure created in 2020 by Adriane Breznay and Julien Ticot-Guillet, to produce projects in the fields of theater, performance, film and music.
The duo’s baroque aesthetic explores the boundary between the real and virtual worlds, in forms where celebration always merges with tragedy. The young artists probe the impact of the internet and social networks on the construction of our identities, and work to create fiction from the streams of images and language that abound online, to understand how this new playground shapes our intimate and political lives.
Julien Ticot-Guillet
Julien Ticot-Guillet is a film director, author, performer and stage director. In 2020, he co-created Studio Martyr with Adriane Breznay, with whom they will join the first Artagon Marseille class in 2021.
During his research course at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, he investigated the use of techno and the presence of the party on contemporary stages, and simultaneously began working for (LA)HORDE, which he accompanied for three years as artistic assistant at the Ballet National. A self-taught director of photography, he shot Julien Chauzit’s first feature film, La Colline, which had its world premiere at the FID in Marseille in 2021.
His work, at the crossroads of all these influences, seeks to give shape to the phantasmagorical mental landscape of his generation, the first to have grown up both offline and online, and explores the different forms of heritage that have forged his queer, mixed-race West Indian identity.
Adriane Breznay
Adriane Breznay is a director, playwright and researcher. Through all these approaches, her work explores the place of altered states of consciousness in art, in forms that constantly re-interrogate the question of mourning and funeral ceremonies.
A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in the “dramaturgies” section, in 2020 she founded Studio Martyr alongside Julien Ticot-Guillet, where she developed her artistic activities, notably as part of Artagon Marseille’s class of 2021. At the same time, she was awarded a doctoral scholarship at Lyon 2 University; her thesis focused on the links between hypnosis and acting. She regularly collaborates on the creation of shows as a dramaturge for theater (Cie Urdin – CDN de Poitier) and opera (Ensemble Pygmalion – Raphael Pichon).