Film screening: Pierre Pinoncelli / Avallon
FILM SCREENING “PIERRE PINONCELLI, THE ARTIST WHO CUT OFF HIS FINGER”
A film by Gilles Coudert
When art creates society, Carte blanche to Gilles Coudert
Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 7 p.m. at the Tannery in Avallon
in the presence of the artist and director Virgile Novarina
As a preamble, Virgile Novarina presents us with thirty years of artistic research on sleep, illustrated by the projection of a video around La Bulle paradoxale, an interactive installation on sleep and wakefulness designed with Walid Breidi, partly developed at La Tannerie during a residency in 2015.
This will be followed by a screening of his latest film, Pierre Pinoncelli, the artist who cut off his finger, produced by Gilles Coudert, the result of twelve years of investigation and research into a little-known figure in contemporary art. Often in the media for his fines, trials, and periods of police custody, Pinoncelli was above all a subversive and iconoclastic artist, ready to risk everything, including his life, to pursue his ideas to the end.
An exchange between Gilles Coudert, Virgile Novarina and the audience will extend the evening.
Since 1995, Virgile Novarina has explored the depths of sleep through writing, drawing, performance, film, and transdisciplinary collaborations. In parallel, since 2011 he has been making films dedicated to artists such as Jean Olivier Hucleux, Eduardo Kac, ORLAN, and Pierre Pinoncelli.