SOMNIA, 2023, 21‘ and INSOMNIA, 2024, 10’ by Pascal Greco as part of Dance First Think Later. Screening followed by a panel discussion

Pascal Greco is a self-taught director, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He has produced eight books, including three on Hong Kong, with a particular focus on architecture, and nine films, including Stun (2015), which explores the impact of a moving body in an architectural and natural environment, and Shadow (2017) with Asia Argento and Anna-Lou Castoldi. He often works with musicians such as Kid Chocolat, Goodbye Ivan, and Lea Bertucci.
In 2023, the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) in Geneva gave Greco carte blanche to make SOMNIA, a film featuring bodies of magnified diversity, sometimes wearing masks, moving and dancing in the MAH building, accompanied by original music, written for organ, piano, and percussion, composed by Goodbye Ivan. In 2024, using the many unused rushes, Greco made a “B side”, a second short film, INSOMNIA, in which he favoured a montage of close up shots, where the camera “caresses” the skin, whether that of a sculpture, a naked body, or the stone of the building. The image, which alternates between near darkness, saturated light, and whitish tones, works in perfect symbiosis with the hushed piano melodies, creating an atmosphere that is as sensual as it is dreamlike. The music is again by Goodbye Ivan, who has also composed a B-side by rearranging some of SOMNIA’s themes acoustically. To coincide with the screening, Goodbye Ivan and Greco will be releasing a vinyl album (Urgence Disk and Chambre Noire label) featuring the soundtracks to the two films and a QR code for viewing INSOMNIA.
Pascal Greco’s work has been shown at FIFDH, GIFF, Mapping Festival, Centre de la photographie Geneva, Espace Abstract, Photo Elysée Lausanne, Journées de Soleure, and LU in Nantes. His work has been the subject of articles in the Guardian, Vice France, Vice USA, Les Inrocks, Libération, L’Obs, Fisheye, Numéro, and Creative Review.
pascalgreco.com

Cinémas du Grütli
Tue 15.10, 7pm
Pascal Greco, SOMNIA, 2023, 21’ and INSOMNIA, 2024, 10’
Screening of the films followed by Le corps, entre film, danse et musée, a round table discussion with Isabelle Chladek, Pascal Greco, Ike Ortiz, Samuel Gross, Alice Riva and Olivier Kaeser.
Launch of the Goodbye Ivan soundtracks
Second screening Mon 28.10, 7pm at Le Cinématographe, Lausanne