Györgi Ligeti - Portrait
Michel Follin
1993 - 64 min - Super 16 mm - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France, Belgique, Hongrie

The composer Györgi Ligeti's background and biography is emblematic of the displaced, cosmopolitan, middle-European artist : uprooted by the Second World War, struggling against the dull artistic conformism of postwar communism, finding refuge in western Europe, a man truly at home only in the international community of music.
How appropriate then that this revealing film portrait of Ligeti's life and music should use a train journey as its central metaphor. As Ligeti gazes through the train window onto changing landscapes and townscapes, it seems that all of the troubled yet inventive recent cultural history of Europe is also slipping past.

Identité culturelle | Musique | Portrait | Recherche | Ligeti (György)


Author-Director : Michel Follin
Author : Judit Kele, Arnaud de Mézamat
Photography : Michel Baudour, Pierre Bonneau
Sound : Bruno Tarrière, Daniel Ollivier, François de Morand
Editing : Adriana Komivès
Delegate Producer : Artline films
Co-producer : Abacaris Films
Co-producer : Centre Georges Pompidou
Co-producer : Les Productions du sablier
Broadcasting Co-producer : La Sept ARTE
Broadcasting Co-producer : RTBF Bruxelles
Broadcasting Co-producer : Magyar TV (Budapest)
Contribution : CNC, Eurimages, FAVI (Fonds audiovisuel international), DMDTS (Direction de la Musique, de la Danse, du Théâtre et du Spectacle), Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique

Distribution


Distributor : Les Productions du sablier, Europe images international
Distributor : Documentaire sur grand écran
Not commercial Distribution : Images de la culture (CNC)
Circulation-Consultation : BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Département de l'Audiovisuel
Disponible au Club du doc

Distinctions

1996 - Images en bibliothèques, Paris (France) : Film soutenu par la Commission nationale de sélection des médiathèques