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De mon sommeil les souvenirs éclatés is an immersive journey, dreamlike, into the mechanisms of the thought. The performance questions the interstice between individual and universal memory or how the accumulation of particular memories tell a plural memory?

Human is central in this performance. Faces of protagonists of this fragmented narration escape to be our mothers and fathers, our sisters and brothers, our loved ones. Moments and images of life with universal tones are showed : the swing, the bath, the party... The archival images are mixed with animated drawings giving a chimerical character to the images-memories.

De mon sommeil les souvenirs éclatés is an audiovisual live performance played in front of the public. The two performers (Jeannie Brie and Theo Strauss) stand on stage next to the projection screen. Neither the sound nor the image accompany the other. They are co-constructed in the moment, interacting and complementing each other.
Jeannie Brie invokes images picking from her video library preproduced. She mixes extracts of her digitized familly tapes to the animated drawings searching effects of matter and texture. Video loops are edited and mixed with reloops, superimpositions and feedbacks with a slow and progressive dynamic. Like an ongoing dream. Thanks to repetitions, overprints and distortions the previous image is constantly reinterpreted giving the sensation of a construction of mental images in real time. 

The sound of archival videos punctuates the sound of Théo Strauss. He mixes synthesizer loops and audio archives on cassettes with the help of analog effects racks. The sound design focuses on a work of timbre and spatialization , of stretching and and buzzing of the sound. In echo to the image, repetition is largely used to bring towards a certain state of sedation and hypnosis in order to better extirpate oneself from one’s environment and to invoke reverie.