Good Boys Film Club Presents: Jean Cocteau’s ‘The Blood of a Poet

Good Boys Film Club is proud to present a screening of Jean Cocteau’s 1932 film ‘The Blood of a Poet’.
A landmark of early experimental film, ‘The Blood of a Poet’ imagines the plight of an artist embarking upon creation, their journey woven through Surrealism’s magnificent tapestry and captured within a cinema of totalising affect. Tracing the connective tissue between art, sacrifice, and the weight of violence upon a shared consciousness, Cocteau crafts the syntax of subconscious feeling that would come to define the rest of The Orphic Trilogy. Arresting portraits of the inexpressible, vistas of oneiric quality, and vignettes of the repressed bursting forth all collate in wondrous montage, concretising the words of its creator: “Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,”.
The event consists of two parts, with the film being played twice. The first screening will feature a live score by musicians TBC and TBC, followed by a second screening where you, the audience, will participate. Instruments and various sound-making objects alike will be provided, allowing you to soundtrack the film yourself and respond intuitively to produce an open and discursive reflection on Cocteau’s work.