Invernomuto at the Venice Biennale

Former residents Invernomuto present 福々っとぶんちゃん / Blissful Bun-chan at the Venice Biennale, a new 87-minute film documenting Keiji Haino’s 2025 performance at Temple Saint-Théodule in La Tour-de-Peilz.

Filmed during Haino’s stay at La Becque, the work transforms the concert into a spectral audiovisual document. While the musician himself appears only as a ghostly retinal afterimage, Phaibun, La Becque’s resident cat, wanders through the church as a recurring presence, moving between the performance, the architecture, and the camera’s gaze.

The project grew out of Invernomuto’s encounter with Haino at La Becque, following an earlier collaboration that had been interrupted when the musician’s European tour was cancelled. Directed, filmed, and edited by Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi, Blissful Bun-chan was shot on location at Temple Saint-Théodule, La Tour-de-Peilz, and produced by La Becque.

The film will be presented at the Arsenale, Tese dei Soppalchi, from October 16 to 18, 10 AM–6 PM.