(what a) Daisyfeast
It was a happy coincidence that launched our somewhat belated season- Bukta-member Jérôme just flew in from Canada for the screening of Leo Liotards film 'C'est la fête' – his jet-lag somewhat reproducing the inebriated experiments of youth displayed on the screen: a warm and sympathetic look-back to the innocence of younger years, when the reasons were not yet so defined, the positions not so vehemently held, the ludicrous as guiding light – bateau ivre, let's say, romantic and down to earth, up close, personal and somewhere in the distant past.
In a way I was quite jealous to see this strip of film – prize-winning I might add, and deservedly so! I had been somewhat smitten by film-making back in the day and was able to do a few experimental shorts thanks to the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op, but after failing to secure further studies in that direction, got blown off course and into other realms – dabbling in video to be sure, but no longer with the verve I once had... the verve that I was reminded of here.
The unabashed simplicity and candid disregard of this work for conventions – originally, the recent cutting all the more professional - still refreshing after all these years (for me more than that, but still recognizable, being not yet so old in the nineties as to being unable to relate – the youthful protagonists still enjoying wine & spirits and lots of smoke rather than the synthetic chemical substances that pass as entertainment nowadays – and as I've already said, more related to the beat forefathers than the hyped up hedonism of today... well, a little bit though – '...up you go, little smoke!' wonderful film!
(and an inspiration to re-visit the archives and finally do something with the material that has been waiting patiently for all theses years!)
