Maurice Ravel

La Bella Amazzone (2021)

Nine beautiful amazons report how they murdered the men who deserved it ...

Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Alice Sara Ott (2019)

The London Telegraph described pianist Alice Sarah Ott as the "hottest new talent in classical music". She now makes her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker performing Ravel's vibrant, jazz-influenced Piano Concerto in G major. Another artist making his ...

Love Blooms (2019)

Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature. ...

Bolero17 (2018)

The film tells that a person, even in very difficult circumstances, is able to turn the tide. ...

Ravel: L'Heure espagnole (2018)

Spiced with Italian buffa, L'Heure espagnole transports us to Torquemada's clock shop, the scene of his wife Concepcion's infidelities. ...

Ma Mere L'Oye (2017)

"Music is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself." This quote from Claude Debussy describes the musical world of this programme, made up of his own works and works by Maurice Ravel. ...

Scandal! Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano (2015)

Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano join forces for this energetic and joyful collaboration on the stage of the international Heidelberger Frühling (Heidelberg Spring) festival, held annually since 1997 in March and April in the romantic German city. Th ...

Proem (To Brooklyn Bridge) (2014)

The short film illustrates and interprets Hart Crane's 'Proem To Brooklyn Bridge' using a direct animated stencil technique reflecting graphic styles of the period. ...

Quarteto Simbólico (2013)

In 1910, Le Corbusier wrote in Germany his famous essay on the eyes that do not see the new forms of modern architecture. One hundred years later, in Recife, the immense modernist work of Portuguese architect Delfim Amorim remains unrecognized. What for Le ...

Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2013)

Leading Chopin interpreter Nelson Freire is the soloist in Chopin's lyrical and brilliant Second Piano Concerto. On the podium the French conductor Lionel Bringuier makes his Proms debut conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and gives a sizzling performanc ...

Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili (2013)

Framed by the tranquil beauty of a forest near Berlin, Khatia Buniatishvili gives a recital of pianistic masterpieces dappled by the shade of verdant ferns and leafy canopies. As a special treat, her older sister Gvantsa joins her for four-handed works by ...

Laylou (2012)

Between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood, Lou and Laylou go through the summer of their 17th birthday. A poetic, singular and strong look at a pivotal moment in adolescence. ...

Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins (2011)

In 2008, the Opéra national de Paris honored the legendary Jerome Robbins. Though the general public may remember him primarily for his staging and choreography of Bernstein's West Side Story, Robbins was also a brilliant ballet choreographer. In this pro ...

La Valse (2010)

La Valse is dance a film by Thierry De Mey based on the choreography created on Maurice Ravel's La Valse as the final part of ZOO's performance Accords. Created as part of the triptych Equi Voci, the film La Valse exists in versions for one or three screen ...

Arithmétique (2010)

Tick, tick, tick...Who's afraid of Arithmetic?...a child is bored struggling with arithmetic homework and plunges into a nightmare. ...

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (2009)

The 1987 Glyndebourne production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, designed by Maurice Sendak and directed by Frank Corsaro. ...

Fiestapatria (2007)

As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret. ...

Stealth (2006)

Lionel is a happy gay man with a great career and an open-minded family that accepts his loyal lover, Serge. But things start to unravel when he meets a pretty Polish immigrant who is about to be deported and decides to marry her. ...

Who was Kafka? (2006)

Filmmaker Richard Dindo's unique documentary uses historical reenactments and speculative "interviews" of historical figures to paint a fascinating portrait of one of the most influential writers of modern literature, renowned author Franz Kafka. Best know ...

Ma Mere l'Oye (2004)

A dance set to Pierre Boulez's recording of Ravel's Ma Mere l'Oye ...

The Rape of Chloe (1995)

This short film adapted from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe. The pirates hunt Chloe, capture her, and rape her. Bryaxis, their leader, forces her to dance for him. Syrinx comes to free her... forever. ...

The Garden (1993)

A nostalgia trip in the enigmatic labyrinth of the passed childhood. ...

Cage (1993)

A cinematographic attempt at a maximum of exertion and a maximum of relaxation based on the thoughts of John Cage, Chuang Tzu and others. ...

A Heart in Winter (1992)

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate. ...

Bolero (1992)

"Bolero" by Ravell is expressed in the mouvements of surrealistic paintings and in the rhythm of the film. This short animation won Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film. ...

The Power of Speech (1988)

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the ori ...

Die Rede des Odysseus (1984)

Experimental short film ...

Cada ver es... (1983)

The life and thoughts of Juan Manuel Espada, keeper in charge of the morgue sited at the Medicine University of Valencia. ...

Das Grab des Odysseus (1983)

Experimental short film ...

Allegro non troppo (1976)

An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named 'Prisney,' he rallies an orchestra of geriatric w ...

Hamlet (1975)

The extraordinary life and death of a man born in the circus Cruzeiro do Sul, carrying a talking heart in his chest. From childhood to old age, he crosses the world and its wars, learning through death never to forget his true quest: Hamlet. Aboard a ballo ...

La valse (1973)

Umano Non Umano (1969)

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances. ...

Ballerina (1956)

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim. ...

Boléro, le refrain du monde (2019)

Bolero: A Global Hit (2019)

Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody inspired and influenced the world pop-culture? It explores the complexity and the richness of a piece so simple in appearance: the emotions it triggers, vertig ...