Raymond Roussel: Le Jour de Gloire (The Day of Glory)
2016, 01:09 min, color, sound
Produced, written and directed by Joan Bofill
Narrated in english and spanish by Jordi Mollà
Executive Producer Patricia Tejeiro
Co-writer Joan Marimón
Music by Javier Rodero
A documentary on Raymond Roussel, who inspired the surrealist group, Marcel Proust and countless novelists and artists of today, from Enrique Vila-Matas and Miquel Barceló to Jan Svankmajer. Taking as our point of departure the film ”Impressions de la Haute Mongolie” (1976), which Salvador Dalí and his director José Montes-Baquer dedicated to Roussel, different specialists including Michel Butor uncover the figure of this writer and poet on a journey through literature, music and the visual arts, taking us from Barcelona to Mallorca, Madrid, Germany, France, Italy, Austria and the US. And from the microscopic ink-impregnated images to the most singular portrait of the human soul.
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Exhibitions
2022
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, SPAIN
Dalí-Roussel: paranoia crítica y cibernética textual
2019
West Den Haag Museum, The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Roussel/Brisset/Duchamp Enginees of The Infra-Thin
2018
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, SPAIN
Indian World Film Festival, hyderabad, INDIA
2017
Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, SPAIN
Baff, Beirut, LEBANON
FILAF, Perpignan, FRANCE
Instituto Cervantes, New York, USA
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, SPAIN
Instituto Cervantes, Paris, FRANCE
Master of Arts film festival, Sofia, BULGARIA
Conferences
2022 “Dalí-Roussel: paranoia crítica y cibernética textual“, Madrid, SPAIN
Participants: Joan Bofill and Hermes Salceda presented by Santiago Rubín de Celis at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, SPAIN www.circulobellasartes.com
2017 “Talking about Art: John Ashbery and Raymond Roussel Legacy in contemporary Art”, New York, USA
Participants: Joan Bofill, Mary Ann Caws, Peter Consenstein, Sozita Goudouna and Thor Halvorssen. www.nyork.cervantes.es
2017 “Coloquio y proyección”, Barcelona, SPAIN
Conference with Joan Bofill, Emmanuel Guigon and Hermes Salceda. www.museupicasso.bcn.cat
2017 “Salvador Dalí and Raymond Roussel”, Paris, FRANCE
Conference with Joan Bofill, Nicolas Descharnes, Joaquim Sala-Sanahuja, Hermes Salceda and Antoni Taulé. www.paris.cervantes.es
Press & Articles
2019
Rtve“Viaje al centro de la noche – viajamos surrealistas” by Amaya Prieto
2017
Artribune “Quando il cinema è sinonimo di incontro” by Giovanni Vimercati
Libertad Digital “Se presenta en Nueva York la Raymond Roussel Society”
RFI Radio France Internationale “Joan Bofill Amargós, el dia en que Dalí orinó en un boligrafo.”
La Agenda Buenos Aires Argentina “El final ya empezó” by Martin E. Graziano
Vice Versa Magazine “Raymond Roussel y su legado”
Bulgarian National Television Interview “Реймон Русел: Денят на славата” със световна премиера на “Master of art”
El Quadern de El País “Oulipo la Secta Catalana” by Mercè Pérez Pons.
2016
Diario de Ibiza “Raymond Roussel vuelve a Formentera” by Pedro Martín Matilla.
El Punt Avui “Entrevista amb Joan Bofill” by Valèria Gaillard
El Punt Avui PDF
El País “El día que Dalí orinó en un bolígrafo” by Mercè Pérez Pons.
El País PDF