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Sounds & Silence: Travels With Manfred Eicher
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Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer folIowed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. In footage from Estonia, Tunisia, Germany, France, Denmark, Greece, Argentina and elsewhere, their documentary movie "Sounds and Silence", has captured aspects of the music-making process at ECM, and provided gIimpses of unique players and composers at work. Amongst the artists included: Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Dino SaIuzzi and Anja Lechner, Anouar Brahem, Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia, Marilyn Mazur, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek and others. The film has aIready notched up a number of notable successes. lt received its premiere at Locarno's Piazza Grande in front of an audience of 7,000 spectators in August 2009 and has since gone on to tour the world's festivals, incIuding the MeIbourne lnternational FiIm FestivaI, the Viennale, San Francisco's SFJazz series, Estonia's Pimedate Ööde FiImifestival , the Hofer Filmtage and more. "Sounds and Silence" won the Berner Film Prize 2009, was nominated for the Schweizer Film Prize, and has coIlected some ecstatic reviews. As ORF summed it up: "The magic of ECM, in a rich, exciting, musicaI road movie." |
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