International immersive Works Competition

Il canto dei suicidi

World Premiere

Christophe Havel, Vincent Ciciliato / France / 2020 / 30 min / Experimental, Animation
No dialogue

A journey to the end of Hell. In the first sense of the term, since in Il canto dei suicidi, Vincent Ciciliato and Christophe Havel put in image and immersion the Song XIII of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. With grandiose sets, nightmarish visions and battered bodies, it’s infernal, indeed.

A free interpretation of The Divine Comedy’s Song XIII, this immersive project is based on various motifs present in Dante Alighieri’s narrative. A virtual and acoustic wandering, Il canto dei suicidi plunges us into an environment composed of immense platforms, each representing an allegorical scene: from souls of suicide victims plunged into Hell and reincarnated as trees, to their return to Earth in entities without bodies at the time of the Last Judgement.

Creation

Christophe Havel, Vincent Ciciliato

Direction

Vincent Ciciliato, Christophe Havel

Key collaborators

Art Zoyd Studio Art Zoyd Studio (Expertise/Production)

Screenplay

Vincent Ciciliato, Christophe Havel

3D design

Vincent Ciciliato, Hamid Armani, Vincent Bartissol

Interactive design

Vincent Ciciliato, Oudom Southammavong, Hamid Armani

Animation

Vincent Ciciliato, Hamid Armani, Vincent Bartissol

Editing

Vincent Ciciliato

Sound

Christophe Havel

Music

Christophe Havel

Production

Art Zoyd Studio (Monique Vialadieu)

Co-production

SCAM - Bourse "Brouillon d'un rêve" (Fanny Viratelle), Laboratoire CIEREC (Danièle Méaux)

With

Agathe Griseri, Andrei Mindreci, William Palet, Anne-Céline Trambouze

Supported by

SCAM

Contact

Artiste (Vincent Ciciliato)

Christophe Havel / France, 1958

Filmography

2010, XX (musical piece)

2009, Eden (musical piece)

2008-13, Dissidences (musical piece)

Vincent Ciciliato / France, 1978

Filmography

2018, Discursive Immanence

2012, Tempo Scaduto

2011, Ordinary Compulsions