JULIE TIPPEX CINECONCERTS
Introducing a brand new roster of Julie Tippex’s artists performing cine-concerts.
Many of these projects were commissions from La Cinémathèque Française in Paris to Julie Tippex agency.
NOSFERATU (DW Murnau)
A commission from the Cinémathèque Française in 2022.
For Murnau’s masterpiece, the horror movie blue print, Emmanuelle Parrenin plays the hurdy-gurdy and sings, Quentin Rollet plays the saxophone and Jérôme Lorichon (Zombie Zombie) the analog synthesizer.
The show got a standing ovation at the Cinémathèque française in front of a full house: from first-time viewers (many young people who were discovering the film) to Cinémathèque subscribers, or fans of Murnau’s, the audience reaction was unanimous.
Jean-François Rauger, programming director of the Cinémathèque, said that it was the most beautiful accompaniment of Nosferatu that he had seen.
The band has issued the soundtrack on CD and played the ciné concerts several times, including in China in 2024.
JEANNE D’ARC (JOAN THE WOMAN) (Cecil B. DeMille)
Music by Zombie Zombie, premiered in March 2024 at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris.
An astonishing film by Cecil B. DeMille, who, true to himself, gives pride of place to battle scenes, and even dares a strange scenario where Joan of Arc’ ghost appears in the trenches of the First World War to forgive the English!
JUDEX (Louis Feuillade)
A commission from the Cinémathèque Française in 2024: The full 12 episodes – 6h30! – of the exploits of “Judex”, a vigilante with a black cape and hat, a detective film masterpiece, music by Vega Voga & La Mverte.
Premiered in March 2023 La Cinémathèque Française in Paris. Also performed at Festival du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg, in a 6 episodes version.
SPIES (F. Lang)
After the success of Nosferatu, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet, Jérôme Lorichon performed to Fritz Lang’s Spies in 2023 at La Cinémathèque again, this time adding Fabrice Laureau aka F/lore on electronics.
Spies tells the story of the beautiful Russian spy Sonja Baranikowa, and Haghi, a seemingly respectable bank director who is actually the diabolical mastermind of a powerful crime organization.…
INTOLERANCE (DW Griffith)
THE epic film – a three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece, intercutting four parallel storylines: a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; Christ’s mission and death; the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre; the fall of the Babylonian Empire.
Premiered at La Cinémathèque Française in 2023.
Music by Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet, Jérôme Lorichon and Fabrice Laureau (F/lore)
J’ACCUSE (Abel Gance)
Cosmic Neman, Jérôme Lorichon, Nicolas Laureau and Shane Aspegren create the musical accompaniment for Abel Gance’s “J’accuse”, an astonishing pacifist film released in 1918. Premiered at La Cinémathèque Française in 2024.
WOMAN ON THE MOON (Fritz Lang)
One of the first Sci-Fi movie (ok: there was Melies’ Voyage dans la Lune…), Woman in the Moon predicted a ton of spacefaring hallmarks that would later appear on real launchpads (and Tintin too).
Premiered at La Cinémathèque Française in 2023.
Nova Materia, the Franco-Chilean group, based in Paris, created the music.
WAY DOWN EAST (DW Griffith)
Way Down East is a 1920 American romantic drama film starring Griffith’s favorite actress, Lillian Gish. The film is particularly remembered for its climax in which Gish’s character is rescued from doom on an icy river.
Another ciné-concert commissioned by La Cinémathèque Française in 2023. Music by Nova Materia.
METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
French music producer Joakim created a full new soundtrack for a dvd of one of the most famous film in the history of movies and performed it to prestigious venues.
LES VAMPIRES (L. Feuillade)
Another crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora as the fascinating Irma Vep,
Wanting to restore a certain authenticity to this silent film from the beginning of the century, French producer Arandel only uses for this purpose sound experiments by electronic pioneers in addition to sound effects produced live on stage by three “old-school” sound artists.
The centenary of the series, its restoration in 2015 and the anniversary of Gaumont were all reasons to put this cult film back on the scene.
CITY GIRL (MW Murnau)
A young peasant, dominated by his authoritarian father, must go to the city to sell wheat, but returns with a young wife. She wanted to escape the city atmosphere, but will quickly come up against the patriarch’s distrust of her…
A commission by the Cinémathèque française, created in February 2022. For this performance, Arandel is accompanied by pianist Edouard Ferlet. The show was also presented at Wiener Konzerthaus in November 2024.
ORPHANS OF THE STORM (DW Griffith)
Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent drama film by D. W. Griffith set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution. This was the last Griffith film to feature both Lillian and Dorothy Gish.
Created in 2023 at La Cinémathèque for the DW Griffith programme, performed by Vega Voga & La Mverte.
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (Robert Wiene)
The quintessential work of early German Expressionist cinema, the film tells the story of an insane hypnotist who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. The film features a dark, twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique, curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.
Premiere in 20 December 2024 at La Cinémathèque, performed by ERikM.
OCTOBER (SM Eisenstein)
Made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, October has taken on newsreel status: its famously scenes of the storming of the Winter Palace are said to be more spectacular and better attended than the actual event.
Premiere in February 2025 at La Cinémathèque, performed by guitar trio L’Equerre (Maxime Delpierre, Nicolas Villebrun, Eat Gas.
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (SM Eisenstein)
Considered one of the greatest films of all time, the film presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.
Premiere in February 2025 at La Cinémathèque, performed by Rhys Chatham and his guitar orchestra.
AMERICA ( (DW Griffith)
Nine years after The Birth of a Nation, the American War of Independence is the setting for Griffith’s new historical blockbuster. Starring Lionel Barrymore, among others, this epic fresco ends with an impressive battle with thousands of extras, and the siege of a fort by the Indians (a reenactment during which many casualties were recorded).
Premiere in March 2025 at La Cinémathèque, performed by Vega Voga & La Mverte..
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE / UN VOYAGE HALLUCINÉ The Philharmonie de Paris commissioned a show to the French band Zombie Zombie as part of the “Futurisms” thematic weekend. Following their meeting with the famous designer Philippe Druillet and his collaborator Dimitri Avramoglou who produced the covers for their last two albums, Zombie Zombie offered a new collaboration on this project:
– a concert with 6 musicians
– a v-jaying of Druillet’s images, animated
– a vintage analogue psychedelic light show
