Movies: Iannis Xenakis
- 1991
Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko (1991)
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For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commi...
- 1991
Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis (1991)
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BBC TV documentary...
- 2005
OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980 (2005)
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Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit’s discussion of the difficulties of working with archaic synthesizers in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1950s and ’60s is a fir...
- 2011
Celluloid and Marble (2011)
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Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts, maintaining that, in an age of cultural self-consciousness, cinema was “the last refuge of poetry” - the only cont...
- 2022
The Eternal Colour of Interior (2022)
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Stuck in a never-ending cycle of routine whilst isolated within her home, a young woman enters a colour-soaked, phantasmagorical downward spiral....
- 1959
Continu-discontinu (1959)
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Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements...
- 1966
The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse (1966)
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Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend....
- 1973
Olivier Messiaen and the Birds (1973)
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"A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory, films some of the privileged moments of his teaching. This film, co-directed with Denise Tual, also s...
- 2011
Drums (2011)
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Present in nearly all cultures and used for many purposes, drums have unique shapes, sounds, names and accents in each region of the world. Behind this vast legacy are individuals who play them and are touched by these ancestral instruments. From the...
- 1960
Vasarely (1960)
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In 1960, Xenakis composed the music NEG-ALE for P. Kassovitz's "Vasarely", an abstract film on the artwork of Op-Art master Victor Vasarely....
- 2009
Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis (2009)
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This is a documentary film on the life and work of the composer Iannis Xenakis, the “architect of sound”, whose visionary work reconciles art with science. The film develops in such a way to show how Xenakis’ philosophy, architectural experience, mat...
- 1958
Electronic Poem (1958)
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Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as...
- 1960
Fer chaud (1960)
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Purged from its details, the image thus obtained offers a vision of this sculpture reduced to moving lights....
- 1993
Nadir (1993)
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- 2021
Day (2021)
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An experimental short film shot on iPhone 7 Plus during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak. The film depicts a young man's love for arts and his struggle to coexist with his personas....
- 1971
Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz (1971)
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The creation of Iannis Xenakis’ « Persephassa » at the Shiraz-Persepolis Art Festival. There are only a few archives left of this piece, for its ring-like disposition around the audience made it difficult for people to record it or take pictures of ...