Iannis Xenakis

Celluloid and Marble (2011)

Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts, maintaining that, in an age of cultural self-consciousness, cinema was "the last refuge of poetry" - the only contempor ...

Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis (2009)

This is a documentary film on the life and work of the composer Iannis Xenakis, the "architect of sound", whose visionary work reconciles art with science. The film develops in such a way to show how Xenakis' philosophy, architectural experience, mathemati ...

OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980 (2005)

Drawing on rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental film, this documentary surveys the formative years of electronic music from 1948 to 1980. Featuring pioneering composers and inventors—including Milton Babbitt and Leon Theremin—the ...

Nadir (1993)

Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis (1991)

BBC TV documentary ...

Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko (1991)

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commitments ...

Olivier Messiaen and the Birds (1973)

"A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory, films some of the privileged moments of his teaching. This film, co-directed with Denise Tual, also shows M ...

Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz (1971)

The creation of Iannis Xenakis' « Persephassa » at the Shiraz-Persepolis Art Festival. There are only a few archives left of this piece, for its ring-like disposition around the audience made it difficult for people to record it or take pictures of it. ...

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse (1966)

Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend. ...

La Belle Dame Sans Merci (2023)

Somewhere in the space between reality and fairy tale, a medieval poet left in tragic loneliness sees, as if on a film, his entire past and the price he paid for his poems. ...

The Eternal Colour of Interior (2022)

Stuck in a never-ending cycle of routine whilst isolated within her home, a young woman enters a colour-soaked, phantasmagorical downward spiral. ...

Day (2021)

An experimental short film shot on iPhone 7 Plus during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak. The film depicts a young man's love for arts and his struggle to coexist with his personas. ...

Drums (2011)

Present in nearly all cultures and used for many purposes, drums have unique shapes, sounds, names and accents in each region of the world. Behind this vast legacy are individuals who play them and are touched by these ancestral instruments. From the rare ...

Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978 (1980)

Mycenae-Alpha is an electroacoustic work that Xenakis composed in 1978 as part of an installation of lights, movement and music that took place at Mycenae Acropolis in Greece. The massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes Mycenae-Alpha is al ...

Vasarely (1960)

In 1960, Xenakis composed the music NEG-ALE for P. Kassovitz's "Vasarely", an abstract film on the artwork of Op-Art master Victor Vasarely. ...

Fer chaud (1960)

Purged from its details, the image thus obtained offers a vision of this sculpture reduced to moving lights. ...

Continu-discontinu (1959)

Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. ...

Electronic Poem (1958)

Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a ...