J'accuse

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PERFORMERS
Wiener Symphoniker
Philippe Schoeller, Live-Elektronik
Gilbert Nouno, Musikinformatik (IRCAM)
Peter Rundel, Conductor

PROGRAMME
Film «J'accuse» (Regie: Abel Gance, F 1919)
Philippe Schoeller
Musik zu «J'accuse» (Regie: Abel Gance, F 1919) (2013-2014) (EA)

Minimalism can not be blamed on Abel Gance. The director, screenwriter, producer and actor who was born in Paris in 1889, has written cinematic stories with visionary projects of gigantic proportions: "La Roue" lasts eight hours, "Napoléon" only six, but requires three screens next to each other. His first silent film, like "Toni Erdmann", takes just two hours of flight - which pass by as if in flight. "J'accuse" oscillates between romance, drama, action, horror and "embedded journalism". Gance obtained a permission to shoot at war sites - without revealing to the military that the jealousy story is developing into a charge against the war. It was shot between summer 1918 and March 1919, among others. on the battlefields of Saint-Mihiel near Verdun, with soldiers returning to the front after the turn. The fact that the extensive restoration (EYE Amsterdam & Lobster Paris) goes under the skin is due not least to the music of Philippe Schoeller, who takes over the electronic part in Vienna himself: "The living went by, music in the head", armies march through the Parisian triumphal arch, but the music focuses on the images in the head, before a zombie army of dead soldiers, in a daring split screen, end the madness of the war. A milestone in film history, with the Wiener Symphoniker in the exciting live soundtrack.