I am a man of words - Jim Morrison
(theatre)

The writing of Jim Morrison, still little known , is of a power, a rare quality. It never has, to my knowledge, summer heard on a scene of theatre.
Engaged artist, allergic to the war, conventions, the theories of manners, it shouts his revolt against this arrogant schizophrenia of America preaching freedom and oppressing his minorities.
With the college, whereas his/her comrades of class idolâtraient singers, actors and sportsmen, the heroes of Morrison were on the shelves of the libraries: Blake, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sartre, Celine, Genet, Maïakovski, Kerouac, Nietzsche, Kafka...
The enormous literary references with which it was equipped very early were going to model all its creations thereafter.
For him, a song is before a whole poem put in music.
It wanted to be a writer and poet as of his youth. It often repeated that it was put at the music so that its texts are listened by the vastest possible public.
December 8, 1970, at the time of his 27th (and the last) anniversary, Jim Morrison offered a particular gift: he rented a studio in Village Recorders in Los Angeles to record his poems.
Then it brutally leaves the United States to live in Paris and to try to find a pretence of anonymity in order to devote itself to the writing.
Its last recording will take place in Paris, CD pirates "Jim Morrison, The last Paris Tapes", extraordinary disc where Morrison déclame its poetry without music if they are not two or three notes of piano from time to time...
For Jim Morrison, poetry was a need. Some will say of him that it was a rock'n'roll star by accident.
It wrote more than two miles pages without counting those stray, thrown...
I discovered his texts there are about fifteen years and since, they do not cease accompanying me.
I wish to make hear his writing, his words, make not discover with the public the singer of the DOORS which he knows already, but the writer, the poet, James Douglas Morrison.
My work, my research, the shape of the spectacle, are built around the sentence of William Blake: "If the doors of perception opened, any thing appears to the man such as it is, i.e. infinite"; and of that of Jim Morrison: "It knew there, there is the unknown, between the two are the doors", with as central object the words of Jim Morrison carried by an artistic team with which I have already a strong complicity of work.

Wild Laurent



Car-interview

I believe that the interview is a new form of art. The car-interview is the gasoline of the creativity. To put questions and to try to find the answers. The writer does nothing but answer questions which were not put.
It is a little as to be called with the bar of the witnesses. It is this strange area in which you try to fix something which arrived in the past. You seek to remember you, honestly, of what you try to do at this time. It is a perilous mental exercise. An interview will often give the opportunity to you to question your spirit, which is, in my opinion, the definition of art. The chance is offered to you to eliminate any filling... You must be explicit, precise, go directly to essence... No conneries. One finds the antecedents of the interview to the confessional, in a debate or a cross-examination. Once the thing known as you cannot withdraw it. Too much late. It is one existential moment.
I am, to some extent, "accro" with the play of art and the literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
I always wished to write, but I appeared myself that nothing good would leave. With less than, for an unspecified reason, my hand is put at work without I would be there really for something. Like the automatic writing, but that never arrived.
Of course I made poems. In particular "Pony Express train" when I was in class of sixth or fifth. It is the first which I remember. It was a poem in the style ballade but I never really completed it "the Latitudes of the Horse" go back to my years with the college. During my adolescence I filled of the heaps of notebooks. Then, when I left the school, I all threw them... for stupid reasons, perhaps by wisdom? I filled out these pages harms after night. If I had not thrown them, undoubtedly I would never have written anything of original. They were, primarily, of accumulations of things which I had read or heard, of the quotations drawn from books. If I had not gotten rid any, I believe that I could not have been free.
True poetry wants nothing to say, it does nothing but reveal the possible ones. It opens all the doors. With you to cross that which is appropriate to you.
... This is why I am attracted so much by poetry, it is so eternal. As long as there will be men, they will be able to remember the words and their combinations. Only poetry and the songs can survive a holocaust. Nobody can memorize a whole novel, a film, a sculpture or a painting. But, as long as there will be human beings, the songs and poetry will be able to remain.
If my poetry has a goal, it is to release people of their blinkers, to gear down their directions.

Jim Morrison. Los Angeles, 1969-70



The actors must make us believe
with their reality
Our friends do not have
us to give the impression which we play the comedy

Here, however, in slowness
Time

My insane words
slip in fusion
and are likely to lose
contact with the ground

Then foreign, become
more insane still

Explore the Highlands

Extract of "Wilderness"



Jim Morrison is the author of six collections: