Moi-même – 2025

Friday, April 11, 7:15 PM

Moi-même
Directors: Mojo L Lorwin, Lee Breuer, Experimental, France, USA, 65 min
Moi-même is the long lost sole feature film of the late avant-garde theater legend Lee Breuer (1937-2021) shot in 1968 in Paris and abandoned later that year. The project was resurrected by Breuer’s son, filmmaker, Mojo Lorwinn who began restoring and re-imagining the unfinished film in the last year of his father’s life.
The plot of Moi-même follows Kevin, a thirteen year old American boy, as he tries to assemble a film collective in Paris and make an autobiographical movie against the backdrop of the May 1968 protests. The film features a cameo by Jean-Luc Godard, footage of the student protesters outside the Sorbonne, and early performances from some of Breuer’s most important theatrical collaborators including Ruth Maleczech, David Warrilow, and Fred Neumann, also known for their work with Samuel Beckett.
Faced with hours of unedited silent film (Breuer’s original intention had been to dub the film later), Lorwin has spent the last three years writing a script, editing the picture, and working with voice actors, musicians, and sound professionals to create a film out of the raw footage.
A collaboration between father and son across half a century, Moi-même is both a lost 60s arthouse film and a new experimental film in its own right, which uses the original footage to tell a story about the political and artistic legacy of the 60s in our time and explores the meaning of abandoned projects.

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