Dialogue with the Invisible is a surprising, ever-unexpected dialogue between image and sound, the visible and the audible. Conceived, filmed, composed, and edited by Jean-Paul Dupuis, these dialogues feature geometric figures, colors, and images of shimmering water, sand, rocks, and motionless old women, which appear and disappear over a period of time chosen and controlled by the composer. The music is at once concrete, a reflection of the real world, of natural sounds and noises, and of short melodies inherited from Western tonal music. The listener/viewer, by turns astonished, perplexed, and reassured, asks, second after second, minute after minute, for "what comes next," telling themselves that there is nothing to understand, but everything to appropriate, to let themselves be carried away into the world of difference, of the unknown that comes to them, speaks to them, invades their eyes and ears, and feeds on their humanity (Claude Brunel). Since I began making films, I have always composed music. Over time, I have explored the visual, listened to the soundscape around me, and made it my own. I have brought together the visible and the invisible: the visual world that surrounds me and the sound, invisible to the eyes but perceptible to the mind through the heart. Seeing the music and hearing the image—two attitudes that inextricably link sight and hearing. The word "dialogue" is essential to this approach because it expresses this desire to understand, sense, feel, and express through images and sounds what I am in this world that too often eludes me. To gather in these Dialogues what separates us from what is essential, to build a privileged relationship between sound and image that I wish to share with everyone in their uniqueness—this is the aim of my work. Finally, these Dialogues are built and created over time. (Jean-Paul Dupuis)
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