Film Essay / On Demand | Éliane Radigue
Star trail photograph (detail) © Martin Strump
The filmmaker Eléonore Huisse and the sonic artist François J. Bonnet ask the composer Éliane Radigue a series of existential questions. The result is a portrait of the artist based on intimacy and friendship.
This new film approaches the world of French sound pioneer Éliane Radigue (*1932) from a perspective of close proximity. French filmmaker Eléonore Huisse and sound artist François J. Bonnet visit their friend Éliane’s home in Paris in times of social distancing and lockdown to explore questions pertaining to solitude, imagination, retreat, the inner voice and temporality – questions that resonate with Radigue’s work, philosophy and way of living as much as with the acute collective experience of suspension and isolation brought about by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
A Film by Eléonore Huisse and François J. Bonnet
FR 2021, approx. 30 min
Eléonore Huisse – image-montage
François J. Bonnet – sound
Éliane Radigue – music
Commissioned by MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues
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