Catalogue des films de « Frank Cassenti »

It was during a memorable concert given at the “Jazz à Porquerolles” festival in tribute to Martin Luther King that the film originated – "I Have a Dream!" – and unfolds in a sort of musical journey through time and space. An initiatory...

Suffering from a neurological disease that made her deaf, Lily mourned the loss of music. Until she meets Cassandra, a young sound artist who invites her to experiment with the "body bass", an electric bass with a metal frame she designed. The...

Jacques Schwarz-Bart, musicien de jazz, vit à New-York. Il est guadeloupéen. Son père André, d'origine polonaise, a 14 ans quand ses parents sont assassinés à Auschwitz. Il sauve quelques membres de sa famille et deviendra un des plus jeunes...

"Au conservatoire de la Havane, j'ai appris qu'à travers l’Art, on peut aussi se battre contre l’injustice." Natif du Chili, indien Mapuche, fils d'opposants à la junte militaire, Carlos Maza est un exilé longtemps établi à Cuba....

Comedians and musicians from the United States, England, France, get together in Treignac, a small village in the Limousin, shrine of French resistance, for preparing a show. Facing the marks of the crimes committed by the Nazis in the martyr...

Le 17 juillet 1959 disparaissait Billie Holiday, elle avait 44 ans. Plus de cinquante ans après sa disparition, sa voix continue de nous bouleverser. Comme le dira son amie Carmen McRae, "Chanter fut le seul espace dans lequel elle pouvait...

Un document unique sur une nuit de transe organisée dans une famille gnawa à Essaouira au Maroc. Les Gnawas sont des descendants d’esclaves de l’Afrique de l’Ouest qui ont conservé leur rituel de transe. Tout le cérémonial musical et...

Presented in the form of a “note” book, filmmaker and musician Frank Cassenti evokes the creation of the Porquerolles Jazz Festival that is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The festival was the dream of a group of jazz enthusiasts who wanted...

Designed as a road movie, "Gnawa Music – Body and Soul" is a musical and human odyssey in the heart of Gnawa music in Morroco. From Tanger to Essaouira passing by Tamesloht, Marrakech and Salé, the film takes us, body and soul, beyond the music...

"In a sentimental Mood" evokes the memory of pianist Michel Petrucciani who left us 10 years ago, through a musical ballad filmed during the jazz festival, which took place on Porquerolles Island in July 2009. The film reveals the beauty of the...