“This is a message for humanity“, proclaims Yohann on stage. “It bothers me the medicine, the blue pill, when are we going to stop it? I’m better when I’m without (…) I want to be able to think, not spend my life sleeping“, denounces Kevin, on a few piano notes. “What makes me angry is when people laugh at me“, enrages Stanislas on an energetic deluge of sound.
In the Astereotypie group, a project that is both educational and artistic set up in 2010 in Bourg-La-Reine, there are five who take turns singing: Yohann, Stanislas, Aurélien, Claire and Kevin. Five autistic young people whose atypical lyrics and lunar phrasings attract the ear to an energetic post-punk genre sometimes bordering on garage-rock or noisy.
Ponyo on the cliff, The cachet, Marie-Antoinette, Alphabetix : their intense songs, in which these hypersensitive people share their anxieties, their humour, their anger and their enthusiasm, really hold up, especially on stage where they are accompanied by four musicians.
Live, anything can happen. These singular singers, rather shy, anxious or confused in normal times, acquire a new confidence at the microphone, even a rock star charisma, and impose their personalities and their curious scansions. Their declamations, both surreal and inhabited, move madly. Because they make us feel their very particular ways of being in the world and send us back to our own strangeness, they touch the heart.
The positive energy of the Gods takes us into the intimacy of their creative process, in the company of Christophe L’Huillier, the patience of an angel and sacred guitarist, who watches like milk on the fire on this human and musical adventure started at the start without a second thought. He manages the writing sessions, the rehearsals and the concerts but also the moods, the difficulties and the omissions of each other, and he also gives everything on stage, in the company of three other musicians (Eric Dubessay and Arthur Gillette of Moriarty group, as well as Benoît Guivarch), carrying high the “spoken word” of the singers.
Astereotypie, a field of therapeutic expression that has become a remarkable artistic proposition, has already given rise to three albums, the latest of which, No guy looks like Brad Pitt in the Drôme, appeared in April. This immersive film by Laetitia Møller, which elegantly sheds light on an unknown aspect of disability and says a lot about the power of art and creativity shared by all, is simply overwhelming.
The positive energy of the gods by Laetitia Møller, on September 14, 2022 at the cinema
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Gender : documentary
Achievement : Laetitia Moller
Country : France
Duration : 1h10
Exit in France : September 14, 2022
Distributer : The twenty-fifth hour
Synopsis : Their music is a wave of electric rock. Their texts strike a wild poetry. Accompanied by four musicians, Stanislas, Yohann, Aurélien, Claire and Kevin are the singers of the group Astereotypie. Coming from a medico-educational institute welcoming young autistic people, they reveal their explosive worlds on stage, encouraged by Christophe, an educator more passionate about raw art than educational techniques. Their collective adventure is a cry for freedom.