Residency to record music for a documentary film.
Documentary film
Aged 13 to 19, five unaccompanied minors have crossed deserts and seas, alone and without family. When they arrive in Marseille, left to their own devices, these teenagers carry with them the burning hope of a new life. The real journey has just begun...
They left without saying goodbye, sometimes risking their lives, crossing borders, seas and deserts to write their new destiny. Over 2,000 unaccompanied foreign minors arrive alone in Marseille every year. These teenagers are looking for a place to belong. And yet they are invisible to us.
The particularity of the use of sound in this film lies in the close link between musical composition and sound design. In this film, the boundaries between sound effects and music are blurred to create a sensory and psychological expressiveness that reflects the psyche of these edgy teenagers. In this way, sound becomes an actor in the film, acting as a bridge between inner and outer worlds.
The musical work is described as electroacoustic, in the sense that we sometimes use everyday sounds to the point of diverting them and turning them into music. The melodic theme will run throughout the film, and will appear in different forms to illustrate the confrontation of clashing realities: symphony orchestra, electronic urban music...
The symphony orchestra is swallowed up by the electronic machine in a contamination of timbres combining the language of contemporary music with gltichs, noise, fieldrecordings...
The writing will oscillate between a tonal, modal and atonal language. Just as the sound design of everyday life will be transformed into a singing line, so the instruments of the orchestra will be transformed into sound matter.
The theme is built on a modal scale: a junction between Western culture and the teenagers' origins. At times, the theme will be imbued with a frenetic rhythm, the jubilant nervousness of these teenagers with their senses on the alert. Then, the theme becomes more suspended, like the migrants' forced waiting, with hope always in the distance.
The theme will reflect in its mirror all the psychological, emotional and contradictory nuances that every teenager goes through.
Production
UNITE ; SOMECI
Support
la Région Sud ; CNC ; la ville de Marseille ; France Travail ; les Entreprises s'engagent ; Ikea ; Accor ; Sodexo ; Onet ; la Fondation de France ; la Fondation OCIRP ; la préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône ; le festival Soeur Jumelles.
Thomas Ellis
Director
Thomas Ellis (born 1981 in Marseille) believes that "telling stories in images is a way of having an impact on the world". Over the past 15 years, the director has also worked as a journalist, producer and social entrepreneur.
Three years ago, back in France, Thomas Ellis directed his first feature film, CARGO KIDS, about unaccompanied minors in Marseille.
Jeanne Susin
Composer
Jeanne Susin was an early initiator of collaborative projects where music, performance, visual arts and theater intersect. In 2016, she won the jury's congratulations at the CRR d'Aubervilliers, with Méga Image, a contemporary musical theater piece for cello, clarinet, double bass and prepared piano.
In 2017, she founded the Joe Quartz duo and opened for Glenn Hensard on his European tour. In 2018, she co-wrote the musical play Chewing Gum Silence with Antonin-Tri Hoang, directed by Samuel Achache. She took part in the creation of Fosse, an opera directed by Christian Boltanski and composed by Frank Krawszik.
In 2021 and 2022, she was in residence at La Cité des Arts et de la Musique, creating the SF Electronique opera Chute Libre, the web series La Lune Pète un Cable, the contemporary music album Radio Vermeil, and the two song albums Le baiser de la Fée andLe Malaise de la Fée.
Oleg Ossina
Composer, Pianist, Performer
Trained in music and the piano discipline by Jay Gotlieb, Michel Maurer and Benoît Delbecq, Oleg Ossina opened up to electronic music in order to broaden his musical spectrum.
Since then, with Jeanne Susin, he has co-founded the multidisciplinary artistic project Vermeil Sous-Bois, in which he has created, among other things, a mini web series, an electronic opera and five albums.
He initiated the video-art project Wertheimer, the aim of which is to restore the contribution and place of sound in its marriage with image. Also an actor and dancer, he has taken part in numerous theatrical and film projects in France and abroad.
Leo Margue
Conductor, pianist and saxophonist
Léo Margue made his debut as assistant conductor with three French orchestras: Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre de Picardie and Orchestre National d'Île-de-France. Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in Alain Altinoglu's class, which he joined in 2013, he attended Mikko Franck's masterclasses with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France and David Zinman's with the Orchestre National de Lyon. Attracted by theater and dance, he also collaborates with Marc-André Dalbavie and Bertrand de Billy at the Opéra National de Paris, and works on several occasions with French contemporary dance and hip hop choreographer Farid Berki.
Assistant conductor to Matthias Pintscher at the Ensemble Intercontemporain from 2019 to 2021, he is becoming particularly active in the creative milieu, exploring interactions between written and improvised music with the LIKΣN project alongside composer/improviser Timothée Quost.
In 2022, Léo Margue was invited by France's leading creative music ensembles to take over the artistic direction of Ensemble 2e2m, ensuring its historical continuity and innovation, so that artistic creation is at the heart of the expectations of all audiences, now and in the future.
director
Jeanne Susin
composer
sound design composer
orchestra
Léo Margue
conductor
Virginie Lefebvre
sound engineer recording music
Someci - Unité
Antoine Pezet
Caroline Nataf
production