On October 15, 1924, the first “Surrealism Manifesto” appeared in Éditions du Sagittaire, the kingpin of which was of course André Breton, who became the sovereign pontiff of this artistic movement which would revolutionize contemporary creation. Among the founding fathers of this movement (too often forgotten, because he was quickly excluded manu militari) is Roger Vitrac, citizen of Pinsac and Souillac, enfant terrible of surrealism in the 1920s.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the Roger Vitrac Festival paid tribute to him in Souillac and Haut-Quercy. For three years, Cinéphilot, supported by Cauvaldor, has once again evoked the great creative hours of this extraordinary and disturbing poet.
At the start of summer, a new Roger Vitrac Day (Saturday June 15, in Souillac and Pinsac) will allow us to look back on the birth of the surrealist movement thanks to readings of texts, projections and exhibitions, but also through the installation of a plaque in Souillac, on the facade of the house in which the Vitrac family lived for ten years. This first period of his turbulent Souillagaise childhood strongly inspired Roger Vitrac in his dramatic creation. Two of his most famous plays: Victor ou les Enfants au Pouvoir and Le Saber de mon père are testimony to this.
Cinema (R. Vitrac worked for ten years as a screenwriter and dialogue writer) will not be forgotten since in the evening, at the Cinema Le Paris in Souillac, two films will be shown: La Coquille and le Clergyman, a famous surrealist work by Germaine Dulac with Antonin Artaud, accomplice of Vitrac, and Musidora the tenth muse of P. Cazals, celebrating Musidora, the muse of the surrealists.
The program for the day for Saturday June 15:
At 11:30 a.m. at Souillac 46 Bd LJ Malvy, unveiling of a plaque on the Vitrac-Aubrun house, where Roger Vitrac lived for ten years.
At 1 p.m., in Pinsac, Peyladou restaurant, surrealist lunch (reservation essential).
At 4:30 p.m. in Pinsac, Espace Roger Vitrac, exhibition-bookstore: “The centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto”, illustrated reading: Marius-Roger and André… Fantaisie souillagaise 2.
At 8:30 p.m. at the Le Paris cinema 2 films: “The Shell and the Clergyman” by Germaine Dulac, first surrealist film (1927); followed by “Musidora, the tenth muse” a film by Patrick Cazals (2013).
Information and reservations on 06 85 21 33 04.
