Thursday 14 august at 20:30

Festival la Route Royale des Orgues 2025: The organ celebrates 130 years since the birth of cinema with "The Cameraman" by Buster Keaton

  • Cultural
  • Festival
  • Concert
  • Cinema
  • Classical music
Elevation : 530m
Eglise paroissiale Saint-Sauveur, Place de l'Eglise, 06540 Saorge
Experience the encounter between music on a historic organ and a classic silent film, as Guy-Baptiste Jacottet improvises in the baroque ambience of Saint-Sauveur church.
"The Cameraman" is one of Buster Keaton's masterpieces, combining burlesque virtuosity and silent poetry. He plays a shy photographer who dreams of becoming a cameraman to impress a young woman. Misadventures, stunts and visual discoveries punctuate this comedy in which Keaton displays his genius for gags and staging. With pinpoint precision and touching tenderness, The Cameraman remains a pinnacle of comic cinema. Accompanied by the Saorge organ, Keaton's energy and finesse are revealed with even greater intensity, in a perfect fusion of image and live music.

Guy-Baptiste Jaccottet, born in 1998, is fascinated by the organ in all its facets. He studied organ at the HEMU in Lausanne and improvisation at the CRR in Rueil-Malmaison. Titular organist at the Temple de La Tour-de-Peilz, he is also organ professor at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and, since 2023, artistic director of the Organopole foundation in Lausanne. A lover of the performing arts and cinema, he is responsible for the organ at the Théâtre Barnabé. Soloist, film-concertist or in ensemble, Guy-Baptiste gives some forty concerts a year in Europe, savoring each encounter with a new instrument.
- guyjaccottet.com
"The Cameraman" is one of Buster Keaton's masterpieces, combining burlesque virtuosity and silent poetry. He plays a shy photographer who dreams of becoming a cameraman to impress a young woman. Misadventures, stunts and visual discoveries punctuate this comedy in which Keaton displays his genius for gags and staging. With pinpoint precision and touching tenderness, The Cameraman remains a pinnacle of comic cinema. Accompanied by the Saorge organ, Keaton's energy and finesse are revealed...

Opening times

Opening times

On 14 August 2025
  • 20:30

Location

Location

Festival la Route Royale des Orgues 2025: The organ celebrates 130 years since the birth of cinema with "The Cameraman" by Buster Keaton
Elevation : 530m
Eglise paroissiale Saint-Sauveur, Place de l'Eglise, 06540 Saorge

Spoken languages

Spoken languages
  • French

Environment

Environment
  • Village centre
Updated on 26 April 2025 at 17:41
by Office de Tourisme Menton, Riviera & Merveilles
(Offer identifier : 6168106)