Canti Di Casa D – Christopher Loy

CANTI DI CASA D. NO.1, by Ute Janssen (Collaboration)

2024, performance

Artistic Dirction, costume, makeup: Ute Janssen
Camera: Jytte Hill
Soundcomposition, makeup, costume and performance: Christopher Loy

Used Footage:
»Lie still my heart« (Tableau Nº 5) / Painting: René Magritte »La reproduction interdite« (1937)
»Under the stairs« (Tableau Nº 7)
Various rehearsal shots

Sountrack contributions: Tableaux Nº 5 Lie still my heart, whispered poem by Edward James, electronically processed cello, original length: 3:20 min, 2024
Tableaux Nº 7 Under the stairs, timpani sound with Harmmond B3 soundscape, original length: 2:34 min, 2024

COPYRIGHTS: UTE JANSSEN 2024

Canti di Casa D. No 1 is a 18 tableaux cinematic imagination in sound, words, images and sculpture directed by Ute Janssen as a hommage to Edward James. Canti di Casa D. No 1 was shot on location in the poets and artist patrons former mansion in Italy, close to the French border. He designed the architecture incorporating countless surrealist subjects and references. All 18 tableauxs strongly reference surrealist artworks by artists such as Niki de Saint Phalle, Rene Magritte and Leonora Carrington. Christopher Loy is featured in several performances as the young Edward James, engaging with his legacy, biography and the surrounding artworks and architecture. On the occasion of the two-day conference Italy is more surrealist than the Pope on 100 years of surrealism by the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, Italy, October 17-18, 2024, Canti di Casa D. No 1 was first screened.