Steve Lacy (sopano saxophone) - A Memoria (Movie)

Runtime: 38
Language: Music by Steve Lacy
Country: Italy
Color: Black & White
Director: Daniele Ciprě, Franco Maresco
Description: "A Memoria is the present itself. Steve Lacy’s placid wandering about is not just the journey within a space and the improvisation and invention of thus; it is also the unravelling of a necessary cut, of the impossibility of illustrating or describing a space, of finding within this the image of oneself, or finding this in an image. A Memoria is the piercing scar of absence (and also radically lacking ‘politically’), where the figure which is illuminated is the set itself in as much as it is an extreme spatial abstraction. Nor does the music accompany the film. It is the music which is accompanied, pursued, reached and immediately lost; a chronological sign of a beginning which never existed and an ending which has already been".
Enrico Ghezzi
"The Italian duo Ciprě & Maresco weave a fascinating film around memories of a decadent Sicily. Ruins, memories of ruins - memories are ruins. This thoroughly surrealist piece unfolds like a dream, with no clear direction but the haunting feeling of familiarity and the ready acceptance of otherness as oneness. There is no other sound except Steve Lacy's beautiful and melancholic soprano saxophone, specifically improvised for the film. But, as the directors respectfully say, Lacy's music can never be a mere "soundtrack"; there is a space between the two events, they are aware of one another, but also acutely aware of themselves. And the beauty of A Memoria resides in this powerful dialectic between picture and sound. The pleasure of ruins lies in the eye of memory." The Sound of Eye