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Sounds & Silence: Travels With Manfred Eicher
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Over a period of five years, Swiss fiImmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer foIIowed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the worId. ln footage from Estonia, Tunisia, Germany, France, Denmark, Greece, Argentina and eIsewhere, their documentary movie "Sounds and SiIence", has captured aspects of the music-making process at ECM, and provided gIimpses of unique pIayers and composers at work. Amongst the artists incIuded: Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner, Anouar Brahem, Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia, Marilyn Mazur, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek and others. The fiIm has aIready notched up a number of notabIe 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 worId's festivaIs, including the MeIbourne lnternationaI Film Festival, the Viennale, San Francisco's SFJazz series, Estonia's Pimedate Ööde FiImifestival , the Hofer Filmtage and more. "Sounds and Silence" won the Berner FiIm Prize 2009, was nominated for the Schweizer FiIm 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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