As part of “La huaca pleure”, Louidgi Beltrame’s solo exhibition at Crédac, Cinéma d’Ivry - le Luxy invites the artist for a special evening featuring Les mains négatives (1979) by Marguerite Duras, El Brujo (2016) by Louidgi Beltrame, and News from Home (1977) by Chantal Akerman.
In these three films, the architecture of Paris and New York, as well as the desert topography and ruins of the Mochica archaeological site El Brujo, punctuate the images. The correspondences woven by the directors’ voice-overs and Beltrame’s camera bring different temporalities and narratives together on screen.


The screenings will be followed by a conversation with Louidgi Beltrame, Claire Le Restif, director of Crédac and curator of the exhibition, and Peggy Vallet, in charge of Luxy.


El Brujo, which means “the sorcerer” in Spanish, is also the name of a Mochica archaeological site. It was on this beach on the Peruvian coast that Louidgi Beltrame shot part of his film.
The curandero (shaman) José Levis Picón Saguma re-enacts the final sequence of François Truffaut’s film Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959), in which the young hero Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, flees to the shore. Following a mesa (a healing ceremony involving the psychoactive San Pedro cactus), the curandero takes over the place left vacant in the cinematographic scheme by the ailing actor, who has remained in France. After this magical operation, Jean-Pierre Léaud is filmed in the streets of Paris, following a trajectory that superimposes his memories of the filming of Les Quatre Cents Coups with a subjective history of the New Wave.
Through these transpositions, Beltrame orchestrates a series of displacements, a migration of characters, motifs and eras. The geometric lines of the Peruvian landscape, with its pyramids and excavations, are matched by the structure of the filmic montage, composed of travellings and panoramic shots, set to the modular, synthetic music of Jacno’s Triangle (1979).