Pierre Schaeffer Movies

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20....

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they...

Based on two poems by Rafael Alberti, Garabatos (“Scribbles”) is a reflection on childhood, education and the demise of innocence. Music...

The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical...

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with...

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015),...

Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed...

The "Symphony for a man alone" was composed from 1949 to 1950 by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and then finalised in 12 movements by Pierre...

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.

An experimental short film that evokes moments in the life of a man recreated through the magic of memory. Made from documents from various sources,...

Tones of experimental music lead us into the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. An extensive collection of exotic masks is hanging on the walls...

Pierre Schaeffer presents the Research Department of the RTF of which he is director. It calls for researchers from different backgrounds with an...

The images of this short film are linked to the concrete music by Michel Chion, and let the monologue of Saint Antoine (Pierre Schaeffer's voice)...

The film is an apology of movement, made here by a short editing pushed to the extreme.

The pace is the oscillation that results from the maintenance of a sound, the internal rhythm of its sound structure, which makes it live and change...