Jean Detheux
jdl2.bsky.social
Jean Detheux
@jdl2.bsky.social
painter/filmmaker
Here's a piece done many years ago, it appeared today (I had not seen it in years) and made me think about revisiting some of the processes I used to create it: vimeo.com/55715235
Variations on (this) one frame (à la russe)
During a recent interview, I was asked to define what my work had gained (if anything) when, forced by health issues, I moved from natural media to the digital processes. Immediately,…
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February 7, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Here's another movie done with Paola Erdas, my goddess of the harpsichord. It's been selected by a few festivals, and more are on the way
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Absence (v. 2)
Here's a new version of this film, done 11 years after the first one (that first one is here: https://vimeo.com/25185987) ------ Film done with/for/to/from…
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November 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Musique sublime (lire les notes sur la page Vimeo) / Sublime music (read the notes on the Vimeo page)
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Agnus Dei (v. 2)
This is the second version of this piece, the first one is here: https://vimeo.com/60644998. This is a video with music I do not own the rights to, it is a tribute…
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September 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Naissance de Mísia aujourd'hui en 1955 (elle nous a quittés le 27 juillet 2024): vimeo.com/showcase/318...
Amor de mel, amor de fel
In 2001, I discovered Mísia ("Ritual" https://youtu.be/cW01q6ANVso?list=PLi1y2yrw07oZ9H3j0DBWBbl053XsIJbow). I since have bought all her records. A…
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June 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
As with my other pieces shown here, please click on the text section to launch the video.

This is a very special memory, connected to a very special place (Ferrières, where both my parents are resting).

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Ferrières (memories of)
I draw/paint (now digitally) constantly, and recently, I "found" some images that had a weird feel to them, a feeling I immediately recognized as "loaded"…
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April 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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April 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A sketch created in real time while listening to the music with my eyes: vimeo.com/showcase/104...
Do not push the river
In preparation for upcoming live images - music concerts, I am eagerly practicing real-time image/video generation and mixing, and am having a ball. I practice with…
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April 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Immense pianist, very few musicians can touch me the way her music does:
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Tendrement
Here we are at the end of 2020, a year that has been, still is, very hard on a lot of people. For too many, it is “more of the same" (war, poverty, injustice,…
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April 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Second version of a sketch done with/for/to a beautiful rendition of great music, performed by an immense pianist (more info on the Vimeo page):

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Khatia's Menuet (v. 2)
Second version of this piece, the first one is here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/4568738/video/215990710 ----- Original notes: This is Khatia Buniatishvili’s…
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April 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Great session of improvisation, more info in the Vimeo notes:
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At the End of the Breath (v. 2)
This is a second version of this piece, the first one, done in early 2017, is here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/3659581/video/198294874 -------- This piece was triggered…
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April 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Second version of a special piece, first one was done many years ago (more info on the Vimeo page)

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Daydream Mechanics V Sketch 3 (v. 2)
This is a new take on this fascinating music, 18 years after the first one (first one is here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/2985532/video/34195413) I am currently…
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April 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A collaboration with an immense musician, Xavier Díaz-Latorre.
We've done other pieces together, more info on the Vimeo page:
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Prélude
There's a new version of this piece, done 7 years after the first one: https://vimeo.com/1001160193 --- Robert de Visée (c.1655 – 1732/1733),…
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April 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Second version of this piece, done 16 years after the first one, one of the many pieces done with pianist/composer Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven:
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NY Counterpoint (v. 2)
This is a second version of this movie, done 16 years after the first one. I really love revisiting "old" pieces and using them as "putty" to…
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April 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A magnificent interpretation of an eternal music (more info on the Vimeo page): vimeo.com/showcase/389...
Chaconne revisited
Last June (2021), I listened to a concert broadcasted on Musiq3 (I owe many great music discoveries to that Belgian radio), a concert presented by Vassilena Serafimova…
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April 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Second version of this movie (more info on the Vimeo page):

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The Visible Resonance of Bookends (v. 2)
This is a revisiting of the "The Visible Resonance of Bookends" done 10 years ago with Mikel Kuehn. For reasons I do not really understand, that original…
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April 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Done many years ago, a very fond memory (more info in the Vimeo notes): vimeo.com/showcase/364...
Alfonsina y el mar
Here's another sketch, driven by the impact of this music and the voice of Mercedes Sosa (1935 -- 2009), forcing me to "listen with my eyes." Alfonsina…
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March 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Second version of a piece done in collaboration with composer Mikel Kuehn (more info in the Vimeo notes):
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lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings (v. 2)
This is the second version of this movie, the first one, done in 2010, is here. --- Original notes: Film in 6 movements, based on related texts of E. E. Cummings…
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March 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
An old piece done to music I really like (more info in the Vimeo notes):

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Storia estrada (sketch 6)
This is another sketch done with/for/to this enjoyable music. Here's what I said when posting the first version (I still feel the same way): I've seldom…
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March 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Today is Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday:
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with Johann Sebastian Bach
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March 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Very special piece for me, the very first movie I created in collaboration with my goddess of the harpsichord, Paola Erdas (vimeo.com/album/2985377):

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La Folia
Organic abstract images dance to/with Baroque music (Arcangelo Corelli's "Variations on La Follia," magnificently transcribed and interpreted by Quadro…
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March 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937)
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With Maurice Ravel
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March 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Second version of a sketch done a while ago.
Superb music, magnificent interpretation:
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2, 3 & 4 (v. 2)
This sketch is the second version of a piece that was supposed to be a silent video for a concert of music improvisation with images, done at the request of a composer…
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March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Superb interpretation by Natacha Kudritskaya:
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Natacha's Gavotte
This is Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Gavotte et 6 doubles”, music which has been with me for a very long time. As I am not getting any younger (71 at…
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March 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just heard this music on the radio, it's been essential music for me for many many years (this is my second version, more info on the Vimeo page): vimeo.com/showcase/937...
Le Sacre du Printemps (v. 2)
This is a second version of the sketch done with/to/for this amazing music! The first one, done in 2013, is here: https://vimeo.com/64193347 Both are here too:…
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March 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM