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PHIL
Mime – Automaton – Statue

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I am honoured and delighted to let you share my passion through my site.

I perform on request by the hour or by the day.

Deep in a heavy silence, my mechanism sometimes starts up to catch the bystander’s attention.

PRESENTATION

I move around on a chainless “Cyclone” Bi cycle or with a wooden stick, dressed in 1900 clothes, frock coat or cavalry coat, top hat and white gloves.

A made-up blue line under each eye highlights my mesmerizing, amazing and a bit unhingeing look and motionless.

I can remain : eyes opened without fluttering my eyelashes for 5 minutes, or standing for 5 hours, totally frozen, before giving a hint of a gesture or a look.

I have a real talent for getting myself into hibernation for hours. It is no use trying to detect the least slackening in my look, you would be the first to capitulate !

I can be a statue on a pedestal, in a square or in a garden, a dummy in a showcase, a signpost statue for commemoration days.

Plunged into a heavy silence, my mechanism sometimes starts up to catch the bystander’s attention.
Phil the automaton, a mime exhilarated by poetry
His top hat glued to his head and his “Belle Epoque” frock coat put on his shoulders would nearly bring us back to Jean Renoir’s cinematic work. Fitted with his incredible chainless “Cyclone” Bi cycle he takes everywhere with him, Phil the automaton will sustain a good many conversations all along this Sunday. A living statue retreating into immobility, he will remain impervious to the surrounding noises and to the beauty of the party. Not the slightest presence will be able to trouble his fixed dilated pupils. Even not the one of the children who in vain will try to touch him as their parents advised them to do. The amazing character will present the act he has refined for four seasons all over France under the gaping look of onlookers.
Endowed with a childish soul, this fan of mechanical toys living in Chéu found he had a passion for miming in 2001 after a domestic accident. A serious fall from a ladder caused him a serious cranial traumastism of which he has still kept sporadic after-effects.
Did this accident give him this enigmatic and so unhingeing look ? Six minutes without batting an eyelid or eight hours without making the least movement perhaps provide you with a different perception of the surrounding world. “It is a spiritual grace, confides Philippe, which gives a blissful feeling and a comfort to the lonely frozen-beyond-time man that I am…”
Let’s meditate on this humanist lesson considering the difficulty of the exercise.
Thierry BRET
Extract from “L’Yonne Républicaine”

Phil the strange living statue…
The appearance is faultless. Besides the expression remains frozen. The unflinshing man stares at the unfathomable beating of the time with his wide mysterious dilated eyes. Nothing will disturb his motionless. Neither the background nor even a little bead of sweat standing out on the bridge of his nose. As straight as an “i”, Phil probably draws his inspiration out of stoicism. A healthy quality he venerates like an ascetic man fond of silence, jerky movements and serenity. Wearing a “Belle Epoque” suit, he welcomes the bride and the groom on the church square. No one can miss him. Who knows, perhaps he will be the attraction of your wedding…
Wedding fair
February 2006
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National holiday in SEMUR (Côte-d’Or) on July 14th 2006
PHIL swapped his accountant suit for the one of a curious character livening up the street : old wooden skis, tricycle, child’s scooter, cyclorower, unicycle, rickshaw… such is Phil the Automaton’s world.

Among this crowd one could notice a somewhat strange – because different – man. Phil, mime and automaton, has kept his childish soul. On his bicycle, wearing a black suit and a hat, PHIL fascinated the onlookers by freezing his expression, jerking his movements, giving dream to everyone. A nice afternoon under the sign of friendliness and sharing.

National holiday in AUTUN (Saône-et-Loire) on July 14th 2006 at “Plan d’eau du Vallon” :
Beside the associations activities, a West Indian choir came onto stage late in the afternoon to give the numerous spectators various and varied songs… Moreover, PHIL, a mime-automaton, wandered about the crowd all evening long delighting children and adults who thought this man making jerky movements was very amusing.
LE JOURNAL DE SAONE-ET-LOIRE, July 17th 2006.
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Once again, the Local Council for young people of the town of Autun bent over backwards to propose various shows for pedestrians.
Thus, late in the afternoon, PHIL the mime-automaton delighted the children wandering along the lake with his 1900-suit and his chainless “Cyclone” Bi cycle.
LA GAZETTE DU MORVAN, July 18th 2006.
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EXTRACT OF AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN “LE MONDE” IN 2004 !
PHIL is a quite outstanding man coming from the “old school”. He knows how to give. He has always been generous. PHIL is an unpretentious man overflowing with humanity and a true rare elegance ! PHIL is one of an “unfortunately” endangered race. He is a sweet and very modest artist. H. de M.

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CONTACT

Free Independent Artist
Attractive rates on request by the hour or for several days :
- tapering charges
- thanks for providing housing
- other suits : Renaissance-medieval-statue accordion-player
- trips : France and abroad

Payment on bill : VAT non-applicable ("Article 293-B du Code Général des Impôts")
By : cheque – cash – money order
SIRET n° 441.831.781.00014
APE n° 441.831.781

Please don’t forget to book my performance a long time in advance.

Address :
4 rue du Bois
89600 CHÉU (FRANCE)
Phone : +33 (0)3.86.35.32.69
Mobile : +33 (0)6.82.28.22.69

E-mail : phil@phil-mime.com

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