MORNING SESSION #3: WHY MUSIC

With the support of SACEM Round table accessible only to French speakers In a somewhat provocative way, the “Why Music?” matinee proposes to question the necessity of musical accompaniment in documentary cinema, by taking the opposite view of its obviousness. Indeed, all too often music is used in films to support sentimental, psychological or natural torments, thus participating in the narrative formatting of television. Yet, to put it with Stravinsky, expression has never been the immanent property of music. It is only when it is considered to be powerless that it can be inventive and participate organically in the documentary work, whether it becomes one with the direct sound or plays, on the contrary, on the distortion of reality. Filmmakers, composers, sound technicians (sound editors and mixers) will be brought together to question the way in which musical creation, sound creation and staging intertwine and feed off each other.

HOSTED BY Thierry Jousse – radio producer and filmmaker SPEAKERS Daniel Deshays – sound designer, essayist and teacher Séverine Ballon – composer of Où est cette rue? and L’Ornithologue by João Pedro Rodrigues Nicolas Mollard – composer of Sapphire Crystal by Virgil Vernier Martin Wheeler – composer of Arnaud des Pallières, Laure Portier, Claire Simon Marc Marder – composer of Rithy Panh’s films Olivier Goinard – sound engineer and mixer of Adolescentes by Sébastien Lifshitz, Et J’aime à la fureur by André Bonzel and Orlando, ma biographie politique by Paul B. Preciado.