Nicolas Sornaga's 'Le Dernier des Immobiles' Blurs Documentary and Fiction

Nicolas Sornaga's film 'Le Dernier des immobiles' originated as a documentary about poet Matthieu Messagier based on his book 'Orant' but evolved into a delirious fiction driven by Sornaga's restless energy. The film features Sornaga playing himself as a director on a journey where, as Messagier states, 'image and adventure merge.' Produced through a mobile production method, the film includes surreal scenes: a heavy metal drummer on a cart pulled by oxen, a TV intervention by Pierre Péchin reading his 'letter to my friend Matthieu Messagier,' an unexpected encounter with Michel Bulteau in a supermarket yogurt aisle, a cyclist poet, and a pygmy baker. The film follows a delirious thought process, echoing the 'Manifeste électrique aux paupières de jupes' (1971) by the same circle of poets (Messagier, Bulteau, Gilles Mézières), who created their own economy of displacement. Published by Éditions Choses vues, the review by Jean-Marc Chapoulie appears in artpress.