Les Cyclistes ~ Overview

Les Cyclistes is a project by David Furnham, Reader in Media Arts at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University.

Stephen Horne, specialist musician for silent films at the National Film Theatre and many European film festivals, records the music track for Allez, Allez, Allez. The film will be screened as part of the event Les Cyclistes, which runs from 3rd June to 18th June, at the Western Lawns (seafront), Brighton and Hove, and at York Cycle Rally, June 24th - 25th 2006. Pictured L-R Sound recordist Nick Furnham and pianist Stephen Horne.

• Live performance mixes with archive film, contemporary video in intimate settings so the visitor enters a virtual world, which is entertaining, knowledgeable and fun – a popular experience.
• An exploration of the hyperreal world of absurd comic performance and design where the spectator becomes part of a virtual reality.
• The object of desire, the bike, gives the opportunity to explore, time, place and space and social ‘moments’ about age, gender and the current consuming passion for fitness, equilibrium and harmony in our personal lives.
• Lively amusing insights into French and British attitudes to cycling – past and present.
  

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