An animal documentary in the shape of a film-concertFrançois Sarhan’s Encyclopedia is a multimedia project that includes sound installations, texts, books, music sheets, illustrations, animation films, music, installations in museums and conferences.The authors of this gigantic oeuvre, from which the human eye can only discern the outlines, are too many to be mentioned here. However, we must at least refer Master Henry-Jacques Glaçon and his aides Huguette Rudette, Hyppolite, Jocelyne Dusmaillet and Hans Righ, indefatigable in the search for truth.The ensemble is presented as an Encyclopaedia, whose entries are imaginary, as are its authors. The subjects covered up to now are: music (instruments, traditions, fishes and birds), animals (insects, dogs and flies) and behaviours (a fundamental series about mating).The Encyclopaedia will continue to grow, thanks to contributions by prestigious artists and institutions who didn’t want to be left out of this quest for truth: Ensemble Intercontemporain, Donaueschingen Festival, the Salzburg Biennale, the percussion group Drumming as well as Curtas Vila do Conde, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, crWth, etc.About “La Vie des Bêtes Par Jocelyne Dusmaillet et Aribert l’Enrfaite”By Henry-Jacques GlaçonIn far flung places, where the sun seldom ventures, there are plenty of animals we think we know but whose behaviour is, after all, as mysterious as that of Man. Animals with strange names and countless breeds of dogs, have long deserved a close and friendly look that sought to unveil life without deflowering its mystery nor disturb such a fragile ecosystem. Jocelyne Dusmaillet and Aribert l’Enrfaite, after years of studying the terrain, during which they had no hesitations in adopting the shapes and the diet of the animals they were observing, will finally show us the results of their research.There’s no question, it’s a terrible shock, and much of the knowledge so hardly gained will become obsolete: these unknown beings are surely more civilised than us, humans, of the early 21st Century.