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 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 Radigue’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.
Image: Eléonore Huisse
Sound: François J. Bonnet
Music: Éliane Radigue
François J. Bonnet (FR/CH)
François J. Bonnet (FR/CH) is a Franco-Swiss composer, writer and theorist based in Paris. He has been the director of the French musical research institution INA GRM since 2018. He has published several books: The Music to Come (Shelter Press), The Order of Sounds, The Infra-World and After Death (Urbanomic). He also produces radio shows for France Musique National Radio and he is the co-editor of the SPECTRES publication (Shelter Press). His music, often released under the Kassel Jaeger project name, has been presented worldwide.
kasseljaeger.com
Eléonore Huisse (FR)
Eléonore Huisse (FR) is a French cinematographer and photographer based in Paris, France. She studied at the renowned film school École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière. Her work, which focuses on contemplation and the capturing of auratic moments, has been screened in places such as Whitney Museum of American Art, MaerzMusik / Berliner Festspiele, Semibreve, Sonic Acts, Public Access in NYC, French Institute in Athens etc.
