Here comes the porno king!

Katerine phoned, asking me to come and bring Mayumi, Kahimi and other friends with, to the premiere of his premier long metrage, "La Peau de cochon". His title evokes the Balzac's book, "La Peau de chagrin", in which the hero's eponym talisman is getting smaller and smaller and eventually vanishes, like his better days. About 40 people showed up in this new and cute cinema in Pantin. Dominique A was also in the room.

Katerine's movie, shot in DV, is composed with 12 shorts, most of them are hilarious. A young writer's talking about his novel at a garden party: an army of turkeys is trained to invade the Chiapas; Dominique A plays a song from his first "album", a tape recorded in 1981 at the age of 12, a beautiful song about drawers for bad memories; a child shows an incredible drawing made of different portraits of her mother: dressed, naked, her organs map, skeleton, mummy; a diaporama made by switching on / off the room's light, with a moving guy wearing underwear.

The sketch I preferred is the one in which Katerine is telling exactly the same story her daughter told him in a train, a story about helicopters, police and idiot friends. He's using the same words, attitudes, onomatopoeias as the little girl. Eventually we find out that he's walking alone along the railway line near the house where he grew up. This is intense, moving and poetic.

All of it was funny, funny dark, sometimes rude, and not for fans only. But at the end, the camera moved too fast for our morning stomachs. We felt nauseous and decided to have a walk. We went to the Parc de la Villette, and visited a small bamboo forest, near a sound sculpture. In a cafe bar near la Cite de la Musique, we welcomed a friend who recently bought an expensive film copy of "Behind the green door". I shouted at him: here comes the porno king!