Deversoirs #2
Les Déversoirs are INTIMISTE artistic events at LE Picardeau, combining performance, film, music and poetry.
June 2024, the director and performer Manuel Maria Perrone presents a selection of his shorts film accompanied by musician Frank Williams.
A selection of five short films : Golconda, Amen, Study on a Case of Old Age, Dreams of Opportunity, and Un Cardinale Donna, the poetic portrait of Claudia Cardinale produced by the Fondazione, were presented by their author. The whole evening was set to music by Frank Williams who composed the score to various Perrone’s films.
Manuel Maria Perrone works between France, Italy, and Switzerland as a director and screenwriter for film, theater, and radio. His works have been presented at the MoMA of New York, and in numerous festivals including Cannes-Directors’ Fortnight, and the Villa Medici of Rome. Through his various artistic media, he delves into themes such as animism and ghosts, the conflicting relationship between humans and nature, the liturgical and the grotesque, as well as his personal history as a Swiss and Neapolitan artist.
Frank Williams comes straight from the punk movement and the Parisian alternative scene. An actor and songwriter for contemporary cinema and theater, he collaborates with the performer Fantazio, and the director Justine Triet. He is the founder of several music groups, including the duo Williams Traffic with Nicolas Kantorowicz, as well as the group Frank Williams & The Ghost Dance.
