Garras de Oro (Self-Fiction III)

Concert for a film

Music Juan Pablo Carreño
Video and staging Nieto

Ensemble Le Balcon
Musical direction Maxime Pascal
Computer Music Design Augustin Muller

Duration 40 minutes

•  July 2013:  Festival Paris Quartier d’Été ; Église Saint-Eustache de Paris
• March 2015: Tour in Colombia (Cartagena, Barranquilla, Bogota)

Movie-Concert for soprano, countertenor, clarinet, organ, electric guitar, amplified ensemble and electronics.
Music based on the poem Acuarimántima by Porfirio Barba-Jacob and on the cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan I, BWV 98, by Johann Sebastian Bach, for one of the most remarkable silent movies of the history of Colombian cinema, a ‘cinematographic UFO’ censored for many years : Garras de Oro (1926).