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2018 ; 20'

Shot on digital

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Filmed during a six-months stay in the city of London, Ontario, from November 2017 to April 2018. Taking the form of a snow melt diary, it navigates through themes of isolation, uprooting, and fleeting wonder, featuring an underscore_ as its sole character.

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Credits

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Filmed, directed and edited by A. Fontaine

Narrated by Franck Fontaine, Németh Réka, Szelevényi Ákos and

Françoise Szelevényi

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Text extracts

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Ady Endre

Vihar és fa (1914 ; translated by A. Fontaine)

 

Guillaume Apollinaire

La blanche neige (1913)

Les Fiançailles (1913)

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Csáth Géza

A gyertyák (1907 ; translated by A. Fontaine)

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Additional texts by A. Fontaine

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Music

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John Cage

Slowly (1992 ; with Meredith Monk & Anthony De Mare)

Axial Asymmetry (1935 ; recorded by Percussion Ensemble Mainz, 1998)

Four Walls (1944 ; recorded by Richard Bunger & Jay Clayton, 1989)

Altlas Eclipticalis (1961) and Winter Music (1957), recorded simultaneously in 1983

 

Diamanda Galás

How Shall Our Judgement Be Carried Out Upon the Wicked (1991)

Autumn Leaves (2008)

Εξελόυμε (1986)

Epístola a los Transeúntes (2003)

 

Moondog

Black Hole (recorded by Moondog Big Band, 2006)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, KV 488 – Adagio (1786 ; recorded in 1991)

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Vladimir Vysotsky

Rien ne va, plus rien ne va (1977)

 

Tom Waits

Instrumental from The Black Rider demos (1990-92)

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Kurt Weill

Youkali Tango (1934 ; recorded by Armadillo String Quartet, 1985)

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Special Thanks to

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David Burty, Damien Bonneau, Shen Xin & Yu Chengshu