Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Les Films Pelléas Opéra National de Paris
Toward Silence
Audience Score
9 min
After CLEVELAND VS WALLSTREET the director dived into the universe of the Opéra national de Paris to film his documentary about this major centre for musical creation During this shoot he met Philippe Jordan musical director of the Opéra national de Paris Filming Philippe Jordan is like a waking dream He occupies the frame he bursts from the frame he is simultaneously totally present in the music and elsewhere connected to some invisible forces says the filmmaker about the conductor whom he was able to film close up during rehearsals for Gustav Mahlers Ninth Symphony This invisible aspect is what the camera explores in this short film by focusing on this piece in particular entirely given over to listening and immerged in the very heart of creation JeanStéphane Bron reveals a fragment of work that we imagine to be titanic and allows us to see and to hear in a whole new way a work whose interpretation is profoundly marked by silence
DirectorJean-Stéphane Bron
