Iannis Xenakis Movies

  • 2011
    Drums

    Drums

    Drums

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    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...

    Drums
  • 1991
    Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

    Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

    Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko

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    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,...

    Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
  • 2011
    Celluloid and Marble

    Celluloid and Marble

    Celluloid and Marble

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    Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts,...

    Celluloid and Marble
  • 1991
    Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis

    Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis

    Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis

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    BBC TV documentary

    Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis
  • 2005
    OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980

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

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

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    Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit’s discussion of the difficulties of working...

    OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980
  • 2009
    Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis

    Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis

    Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis

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    This is a documentary film on the life and work of the composer Iannis Xenakis, the “architect of sound”, whose visionary work reconciles...

    Charisma X: Iannis Xenakis
  • 1966
    The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

    The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

    The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

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    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.

    The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
  • 1960
    Fer chaud

    Fer chaud

    Fer chaud

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

    Fer chaud
  • 2021
    Day

    Day

    Day

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    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...

    Day
  • 1958
    Electronic Poem

    Electronic Poem

    Electronic Poem

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    Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the...

    Electronic Poem
  • 1960
    Vasarely

    Vasarely

    Vasarely

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    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.

    Vasarely
  • 1973
    Olivier Messiaen and the Birds

    Olivier Messiaen and the Birds

    Olivier Messiaen and the Birds

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    "A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory,...

    Olivier Messiaen and the Birds
  • 1993
    Nadir

    Nadir

    Nadir

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    Nadir
  • 1959
    Continu-discontinu

    Continu-discontinu

    Continu-discontinu

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    Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements

    Continu-discontinu
  • 2022
    The Eternal Colour of Interior

    The Eternal Colour of Interior

    The Eternal Colour of Interior

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

    The Eternal Colour of Interior
  • 1971
    Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz

    Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz

    Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz

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    The creation of Iannis Xenakis’ « Persephassa » at the Shiraz-Persepolis Art Festival. There are only a few archives left of this...

    Du 5éme des Arts de Shiraz
  • 1980
    Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978

    Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978

    Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978

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    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...

    Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) 1978