French Animation: The Mirror Effect – Animated Scores
Composer Andrea Martignoni has prepared this programme that highlights the importance music plays in French animated shorts.
Putting together such a programme was no easy feat considering the massive amounts of French shorts that exist. Andrea Martignoni wanted to emphasize how French animators have always had the chance to collaborate with great musicians and composers in order to produce astounding alliances between sound and images.
Whether this concerns film score composers like Maurice Jaubert, electroacoustic experimenters like Bernard Parmegiani or contemporary musicians who specialize in animation like Serge Besset, there are plenty of French musicians who help to orchestrate the path towards artistic brilliance.
Filmmakers have also proven that they can cleverly use pre-existing music in their films by creating harmonious images, as Laguionie did in The Lady and the Cellist with Édouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto.
Finally, this selection will also introduce you to more obscure music used in experimental films, such as in Gisèle Kérozene, Berni’s Doll and the most recent, Rhizome.
For this screening, you’ll be asked to open your mind, eyes and to lend an ear or two!
