![]() ![]() ![]() The Spirit Girls is also the name of Weber's multimedia conceptual project which used film, sculpture, collage, installation and performance to explore the after-life of the all-female rock band featured in four Weber films: Songs that Never Die (2005), A Western Song (2007), The Sea of Silence (2009) and Eternity Forever (2010). In the films, the Spirit Girls "are the specters of five adolescents, killed in their prime, who come back to the real world to 'express things they weren't able to express' while they were alive." The spectral Spirit Girls are said to have died tragically in the male-dominated music scene of the 1970s. ![]() The Spirit Girls was the name of Marnie Weber's six member drone-rock musical group. Marnie Weber's work is featured on the cover of the 1998 Sonic Youth album A Thousand Leaves. Her work most often focuses on the adventures of women, which sometimes take the form of half-human, half-animal hybrids with bodies cut from pornographic magazines, and other times, pale-faced, folksy ghosts known as "Spirit Girls". An animal often found in her work is the bear, which is linked to the Greek goddess Artemis. These characters, among others, are placed in "vividly colorful environment", ornate, Empire style interiors or dark, dense, eerie landscapes. “But what they forgot was that these films were the fruit of work started five years before.”Success has not gone to his head.Much of Weber's visual art revolves around a recurring cast of characters. ![]() “After the success of the first two pictures we were approached by a lot of people and received a lot of scripts,” he says. In 1990, Lazennec teamed up with Christian Vincent for his first film “La Discrete,” which has received wide critical acclaim and drawn over 500,000 Parisians to the cinema this year.In the wake of these opening hits, Rocca was seen by some as the golden boy of French production, the man with the Midas touch. Rocca had been producing Rochant’s short films since 1985. Fortunately, the first two helmers to emerge from this strategy came up trumps.Eric Rochant’s debut pic “Un Monde Sans Pitie” was released in December 1989 and went on to sell over 400,000 tickets in Paris alone. Their philosophy is firmly based on the idea that new directors should be “revealed” to the world and that working with a young production company is a useful baptism of fire for both parties.“All the work we did with the shorts was to see who we could collaborate with when it came to full-length films,” Rocca recalls. Rocca and partner Adeline Lecallier set up Lazennec in 1985 and went on to produce some 50 shorts over the next four years. ![]()
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