La poursuite du Bonheur / The pursuit of happiness
11/03/2003
Cinema MK2 Bibliothèque
128/162 avenue de France
Metro: Bibliothèque
Paris
A film by Jimmie Durham
with Anri Sala
The director and the main actor will be present at the screening.
Tuesday March 11th, 2003, 10:30PM
(the film is 13 min. long)
Please bring a print-out of this e-mail to be granted admission.
“There’s a young Indian man, played by Anri Sala, the Albanian artist;
he’s walking along with plastic sacks, picking up different things in
the desert – desiccated animal bones, garbage and so on. He then gets to
the highway and walks along the shoulder of the highway, still picking
up all the garbage he can find. The next scene finds him back home in his
little shack, his trailer house, making art from this garbage. People
have asked me if its an autobiographical film, and it’s not really. The art
work looks more like the work of an American-Indian Julian Schnabel or
something.” (Jimmie Durham)
Written and directed by Jimmie Durham
13 mn
Producer: Alves-Durham GbR
Executive producer: Mario Pieroni and Dora Stiefelmeier Zerynthia
With Anri Sala in the role of Joe Hill, an American Indian artist
(probably Shoshone or Paiute)
And Mario Pieroni in the role of Max Boldo, a gallery owner (from Denver
or perhaps Los Angeles)
Actors in the exhibition opening :
Florian Agalli
Augusto Alveti
Giuseppe Alveti
Elisabetta Benassi
Anna Rosa Bidolli-Cotroneo
Marco Fedele di Catrano
Alfredo Conticello
Giovanni Cotroneo
Maurizio Marrone
Nadia de Persis
Mario Pieroni
Maria Rosa Sossai
Marcello Smarrelli
Vanessa Olivieri
Luigi Ontani
Anri Sala
Dora Stiefelmeier
Antonio Trimani
Actors in the airport:
Emily Mast
Anri Sala
Giuliana Carusi Setari
Actors in the cafe:
Chiara Fedele di Catrano
Marco Fedele di Catrano
Jimmie Durham
Anri Sala
Dora Stiefelmeier
Production Manager: Antonio Trimani/Ethicalimaging
Music: Silvia Ocougne
Musicians: Jimmie Durham, Rob Gutowski, and Hella v.Ploetz
Photography: Maria Thereza Alves
Sound engineer: Markus Boehm/ Studio Samples and Frames, Berlin
The works of Joe Hill are by Jimmie Durham
Editing: Merle Kroeger/Homeproductions
Matthias Behrens/Wave-line, Berlin
Shot in the following places: In italy: the towns of Paliano, Piglio,
Valmontone and Rome. Paris and Berlin
With support from:
Tommaso et Giuliana Setari
and the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD
Gallery 101 Ottawa, Canada.
Thanks to:
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Regione Lazio
Angelo Miele, mayor of Valmontone
Nazareno Gabrielli, mayor of Piglio
Armenio Giordani, mayor of Paliano
Aéroports de Paris, Orly
Opera Paese
Raul Alves
Guiseppe Alveti
Laurence Bossé
Pascale Cassagnau
Sandra Cattini
Elisabetta Colaceci
Mary Durham
Pietro Fortuna
Eda Gordon
Paul Guerin
Cisco Jimenez
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Vivian Rehberg
Samon Takahashi
Special thanks to MK2 for hosting the event (in particular Nathanaël
Karmitz and Caroline Bourgeois)
translation: Elena Filipovic
