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Éliane Radigue – Échos

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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.

Éliane Radigue – Échos

A Film by Eléonore Huisse and François J. Bonnet
FR 2021, approx. 30 min

Eléonore Huisseimage-montage
François J. Bonnetsound
Éliane Radiguemusic

Commissioned by MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues
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