Louidgi Beltrame (born in 1971 in Marseille, lives in Paris) is presenting a new film in Palais de Tokyo’s historic movie theatre, room 37, entitled El Brujo (the sorcerer in Spanish).

In an archaeological landscape on the Peruvian coastline, it brings back to life the theme of young Antoine Doinel’s flight towards the sea, in the closing scene of Truffaud’s Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959). While José Levis Picón, the curandero (healer) who embodies Antoine, runs towards the seashore, Jean-Pierre Léaud, its original interpreter, wanders in the streets of Paris.

The new film and installation presented presented along with it have been produced in association with another archaeological site: a necropolis whose landscape is organised into pyramids and excavations. It’s an example of Louidgi Beltrame’s architectural films based on fiction, as opposed to what is generally done in the cinema, where the set is supposed to serve the plot.