Chicorée

The poet Urban Gwerder and his artist friends used to produce multimedia shows called Poëtenz Poetence Soon FMMs portrait film Chicorée became the focus and principal activity of these soirées This ironic poetic picture of Gwerders family life in blackandwhite with colour sequences that conjure up the poets flights into a dream world culminates in an outdoors actionwriting sequence and a leap into the clouds Gwerder dreams he is Salvador Dalì Alfred Jarry the Beatles and Frank Zappa He makes fun of conventional forms of protest and FMM faithfully catches every inspiration and crazy notion a kitchen appliance becomes a largerthanlife monster the head of the neighbour a socialist bookseller turns red handcoloured on the negative the family eats spaghetti and dreams of suckling pig the young son looks for his fairytale parents in a labyrinth of mirrors Chicorée is a silent film with live music played by Celly Pastorini as the film was projected