De Manuel, Otomo
So Young But So Cold
DVD DIGIPACK 4 panes 2 DVD ( full version : So Young But So Cold +short version of the movie: Who Killed Nancy)+ 1CD compilation : +12 pages Booklet. Experimental/ No Wave / Industrial / Post-Punk / Hardcore / Cold Wave / Electronica / Indie -SO YOUNG BUT SO COLD- "The 80s saw the emergence of an incredibly prolific scene in Nancy with the group Kas Product and its singer Mona Soyoc, then with Gerard Nguyen and his label "Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier". From 1963 to 1983, Jack Lang directed a world-famous festival that invited the avant-garde in theatre, dance and perfor-mance. This was to have a lasting impact on the music, film, visual arts and per-formance art produced by Nancy artists. A "Do It Yourself" movement, characterised by a near-equal presence of chicks as energetic as they were active and inspired, grew unbridled. An original sound travelling between no wave, cold wave, industrial music and punk in the vanguard of the explosion of electronic music to come was born. Otomo, art-ist, performer, director and author of the film, has personally experienced this ad-venture. WHO KILLED NANCY (short verion) Beneath the title of a Hitchcock thriller lies a fast-paced Nancy epic, that of an indie post-punk + scene with a singular artistic identity, born in the wake of the legendary band Kas Product. An incredibly prolific and experimental scene, characterised from the outset by a sound that travels between no wave, cold wave, industrial mu-sic and punk. Already heralding the explosion of electronic music to come, this scene went on to grow wildly, taking up the punk + Do It Yourself + movement to produce music, film, visual arts and performances. Who Killed Nancy tells the story of one of Frances most important rock scenes. It's an eclecticism shared by Otomo De Manuel himself, as an artist working + simultaneously in staging, performance, cabaret, music and film. About the director: OTOMO DE MANUEL Otomo De Manuel, a Franco-American who has lived in Nancy since childhood, is an artist whose explorations range from directing and performance to cabaret, writ-ing, music and film. Founder and former director of the experimental theatre company Materia Prima Art Factory and of the T.O.T.E.M artistic wasteland, he was also the creator of the Sou-terrain Corps/Limites festival, the Amazing Cabaret Rouge evenings and the Singe revue. He is also a member and co-founder of the In Coney Island Society alongside au-thor Tarik Noui, and of the Charnel collective alongside artist and perfomer Lukas Zpira. In 2020 he was awarded the SACD prize for his online performance work, Les Chroniques du Nouveau Monde, recounting his fifty-five days of confinement. In 2022 he presented the performance piece Keep On, Walk and Walk, Walk the Speakers at the Festival IN d'Avignon. So Young But So Cold in 2022 was his first film, and he himself came from the un-derground scene in Nancy. In an intimate and poetic way, it traces the creative effervescence of a city and a period, marked by the permissiveness and creative audacity of the punk movement. From this first film came a second, Who Killed Nancy, with a more pop, frenetic and jubilant style.This dual documentary approach follows on from his research into the territories of art and countercultural identities. This work has already given rise to articles and publications by the Presses Universitaires de Nancy, in Le Dictionnaire du Corps, published by the CNRS, and in the journals Singe, Corps, Inqualifiable and Carbone. In a world in the grip of an oppressive return to moral order, conveyed by the net-works and technocracy of control societies, these two films are above all an essen-tial and refreshing ode to creative freedom as an art of living.