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Miles Davis and Jeanne
Moreau
A double tribute to Miles
Davis and Jeanne Moreau
The third edition of the Jazz and
Films Festival took place on 10 and 11 December, honouring Egyptian jazz
musician Yehia Khalil and French actress Jeanne Moreau, along with French
filmmaker Jean Rouch and American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis
The brainchild of Egyptian film
critic and director Salah Hashem, this year's event was hosted by the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina for the first time. The previous two editions were held
at the Jesuit Center in cairo
Combining music and cinema, the event
is organized by Cinema Isis, an online portal created and run by Hashem, in
collaboration with the French Institute in Alexandria
The festival, which includes film
screenings and discussions around jazz in cinema, aims at exploring the African
aspect of the Egyptian personality through jazz music, a genre that has
flourished on the hands of African-Americans
"We always
emphasize the Arab aspect of the Egyptian identity, often ignoring the African
dimension of it," Salah Hashem comments. "I was interested in
launching this festival for over 10 years. I believed in the importance of
revealing the many facets of our country and there is nothing better than art
for doing so, especially now, when we are witnessing a lot of fanaticism and
violence"
The festival has screened several
films, bringing to audiences different angles on jazz, a musical genre that has
been on the rise since the 1950s
Three tributes were paid to
artistic icons during the course of the festival. The first two were to French actress
Jeanne Moreau, who died in July 2017, and the famous African-American trumpet
player Miles Davis, one of the key personalities in the history of jazz
The festival opened with Elevator
to the Gallows (1958), a crime drama directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne
Moreau, with a film score by Miles Davis
The film relates the tale of Julien
(Maurice Ronet) who murders his employer Simon Carala (Jean Wall) with the help
of Simon’s wife Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau), who has an affair with Julien.
The event drives a series of unexpected and unintentional incidents
As the plot develops, Florence
finds herself walking through the streets of Paris, where she is accompanied by
Miles Davis, who improvises on his trumpet -- marking an important entry of jazz
music into the heart of cinematic imagination
As we listen to the improvisation
and watch the image on the screen, we are offered some touching and melancholic
music from the trumpet, matching well with Louis Malle's style
Following the screening, the
audience engaged in a discussion, exchanging views and comments on the film
itself, on jazz and on cinematography
The third tribute was to the famous
French filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch, whose filmography was also the
subject of in-depth discussions during the festival
Coinciding with the centennial of
his birth, the festival screen one of Rouch's iconic films: I, a Negro (Moi, un
noir, 1958)
Renowned for his unique style,
Rouch helped erase the borders between documentary cinema and fiction film
through numerous documentaries on the fate of Africans
The festival’s third edition also
included a discussion titled “The origin and the rebirth of jazz music."
The talk took place in the presence of Egyptian drummer and jazz musician Yehia
Khalil, the festival’s guest of honour.
This article was translated from Al
Ahram Hebdo (French) and edited by Ahram Online
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