Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Jean-Claude Morin | France | 2004 | 52 mn
This documentary originates in my fascination for forest and music. And as the making of instruments requires specific wood, known as resonance wood, I went in search of a correspondence between that singing wood and the eminently sacred nature...
Philippe Truffault | France | 2003 | 26 mn
Cette vièle à deux cordes dont le manche se termine par une tête de cheval est l’emblème de la Mongolie. Elle sublime le lien qui unit ses habitants à l’animal et produit une sonorité envoûtante. Un jeune instrumentiste mongol, des...
Patrick Bittar | France | 2003 | 52 mn
After thirty years of reviving a tradition which had been forgotten in Europe, Reinhard von Nagel is today one of the most famous harpsichord-builder in the world. The film presents his work process and shows a peculiar universe, the parisian...
Thierry Hoarau | France | 2002 | 54 mn
Danyèl WARO comes from Reunion Island, Indian Ocean. He sings maloya, an ancient slave rhythm which has since become the Reunionese people’s claim to their identity. The director also born in Reunion doesn’t want to show a musical film but an...
Philippe Nasse | France | 2000 | 47 mn
This film presents the artistic and pedagogical environment of tabla, as well as its production by craftsmen. Many musical extracts (with sarod, sitar, singing, tabla, solo...) enable us to appreciate the range of the repertoire. Particular...
Christos Markadas | France | 2000 | 52 mn
In his little shop in the 11th arrondissement in Paris, David Barrault works in his window. Wearing a craftsman’s apron bearing the name of a great make of wind instruments, the craftsman-repairer receives us. The place is cosy, bathed in the...
Claude-Pierre Chavanon | France | 2000 | 26 mn
In Africa, as anywhere else, children imitate the traditional musicians – the Griots – and, here, on the Senegalese coast, they do it, using various used implements – Rhandi – as musical instruments. Nowadays, this way of playing is not...
Elisabeth Coronel, Arnaud de Mézamat | France | 2000 | 34 mn
A man of surprises, Ligeti plays with his performer since his pieces are virtuoso pieces, with the listener since he sets traps for him – sound illusions – and with himself with a set of very personal references. These essential pages of...
Luc Bongrand | France | 2000 | 26 mn
Among the 18 official ethnic groups that count Madagascar, the Antanalas – literally “those from the forest” – are in minority. They live on the foothills South of the highlands. Living in symbiosis with the forest, they get food, medical...