Sitting at his table, the story teller turns the pages of his intimate sagas. In the manner of the Japanese benshi – narrators of silent movies – he manipulates objects, projects images, illustrates his stories of encounters and of his interior journeys.
A visual artist whose fame crosses borders, Patrick Corillon has created for himself a unique form of fiction by weaving together traditional oral narration forms (benshi, kamishibai, cantastories, etc). His journey-stories full of surprises, fed with anecdotes of his life, of his childhood, invite the spectator to open up to new reflections, starting at the tangible to soar towards the philosophic and the universal. An artist to (re)discover during five performances.
How a mythical river the name of which we don’t remember has us go back to the immemorial times of humanity and to our childhood memories.
How an old house with its creaking floorboards and its moisture stains on the ceilings takes us on an initiatory journey to deepest Indonesia.
How a cat to whom we have confided all our secrets can teach us how to speak all the world’s languages just by listening to nature’s sounds.
How a simple collection of white masking tape stage markers that lead actors to their marks in the dark makes us see the rainbow.
How doing absolutely nothing while looking into the void is such an intense activity that it transforms us into Arctic explorers of the wide open spaces of (…)
