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06 June 2024 Lyon (France)
Cine-concert | Organ - October Sergei Eisenstein
Jeremy Joseph, organ - Auditorium-Orchestre National de Lyon, Grande Salle
Program Info: Jeremy Joseph, improvised organ accompaniment - October
Shot to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, this legendary film allows Eisenstein, beyond pure propaganda, to refine his editing theory and sign an ultra-spectacular work, a true "blockbuster" of era.
It was the success of Battleship Potemkin that offered Eisenstein, supported by his sidekick Grigori Aleksandrov, sometimes an actor and here co-director, the chance to sign one of the two official films celebrating the 10th anniversary of the young Soviet Union. No means are refused to him, the Red Army providing material and extras in quantity. From February 1917, and the fall of the Tsar, to the triumph of the Bolsheviks eight months later, the film chronicles, obviously partisan, a decisive year. With crowd scenes worthy of a blockbuster, in particular the capture of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Eisenstein uses all the resources of editing, even collage, to give additional visual force to his subject: the lie of religions , the ridicule of opponents, etc. He will also be accused of formalism, a style deemed incompatible with socialist realism. There remains an immediate history lesson and an often stunning film. The Austrian Jeremy Joseph, organist of the Court Chapel and professor at the University of Music in Vienna, will bring his talent as an improviser and will deploy all the power and colours of the Auditorium organ to give its strength to this memorable fresco.
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