Up and Down
Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps
August 8 - 14, 2025
At once a spoof of French cycling culture and a loving tribute to 19th-century writer and forerunner of surrealism Alfred Jarry, Up and Down follows a bicycle rally up the French Alps’ Parpaillon pass, where an elaborate series of gags awaits.
At once a spoof of French cycling culture and a loving tribute to Alfred Jarry, the 19th-century writer and forerunner of surrealism who invented “the science of exceptions” known as pataphysics, Up and Down follows a rally up the French Alps’ Parpaillon pass. A connoisseur of slapstick and cycling alike, Luc Moullet litters the route with an elaborate series of gags, yielding an idiosyncratic and hilarious work that once again finds Moullet melding sociology with absurdism to unforgettable effect.
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