Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Éric Pittard | France | 1998 | 13 mn
Allo la Terre est une série d'émissions documentaires encyclopédiques à visée pédagogique. Misant sur l'interdisciplinarité, chaque émission aborde un thème suivant 4 (ou 5) axes : géographie, histoire, (vie quotidienne), sciences et...
Christian Girier | France | 1998 | 52 mn
Using television archive documents, tapes and photographs, whe have chosen to forego commentary and let Samson François speak for himself. His voice has a melodic sense of phrasing not unlike piano performances that scan each sequence of this...
Michel Barbeau | France, Canada | 1998 | 52 mn
Paul Hyman Bley remembers his adolescence in Montreal, the summers when he was hired as a pianist in hotels. Then in the 1950s he arrived in New York : "I understood that even if I was the best pianist in Canada at that time, I was the worst...
Étienne Blanchon | France | 1998 | 57 mn
Each summer, for twenty-five years, the Hungarian pianist György Sebök has been giving highly considered master classes. An extraordinary teacher, he patiently manages to modify his students’ habits and enable them to reconstruct a new "vision...
Elisabeth Coronel, Arnaud de Mézamat | France | 1998 | 30 mn
A film about one of the most sensational compositions for contemporary piano. To overcome the difficult approach inherent in contemporary music, a pedagogy involving in particular explanations at the keyboard of the performer, Pierre-Laurent...
Bruno Monsaingeon | France | 1997 | 77 mn
A particularly painful family history, an unorthodox apprenticeship in Odessa, an unusual glimpse of Stalin's funeral, the impossibility of playing in the West until 1961, the bitterness of a triumphant American tour, a corrosive and trenchant...
Claude Mouriéras | France | 1997 | 58 mn
Alone at the piano, or accompanied by the violinist Gil Shaham, Hélène Grimaud, an internationally renowned young French pianist, invites us to share her passion for the music of Brahms and Schumann. For Hélène Grimaud, interpretation is more...
Ivan Dimitrijevic | France | 1996 | 21 mn
Saboslava was a very famous pianist in Yugoslavia. As a mother she was not able to pursue her career as she would have liked. Today she lives in a garret in Paris.
Paul Goldin | France | 1996 | 52 mn
With his "piano jazz", Fats Waller participated in the Harlem Renaissance, artistic and political statement of American Blacks.