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ZBIGNIEW WAŁACH

EXTRACT
A series of commented stills
CO IM W DUSZY GRO
WHAT DOES YOUR HEART SING ?

2016
COMMENTED STILLS 12’
encounters with
ZBIGNIEW WAŁACH
Composer
& traditional instrument maker

This pilot form the series “What does your heart sing ?”
tells the story of the bagpipe maker, ZBIGNIEW WAŁACH,
a polish musician et composer
caring for his region’s music.

Enamoured with the nature and the landscape
of the Beskid Śląski,
ZBIGNIEW WAŁACH reinterprets the musical traditions in a contemporary fashion.
His music travels in Europe, India,
Nepal and North Africa.

“We are very contemporary men
returning to our roots,
our hearts throbbing with our traditions.
My inspiration is born form a lands troden for millenia.
Our roots carry our music”, says Zbigniew.

director : Joanna Szpak
photographer : Karolina Migurska

For the museum “Na Grapie” of Jaworzynka,
Silesia, Poland
 

2019

«Walking with the river.
The water does my thinking.»

The Haiku Anthology
Bob Boldman

In memory of Ghislaine Quentin

music : Grzegorz Skoczylas
pictures : Joanna Szpak

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unexpected conversations
DOCUMENTARY SERIES

2016
théâtre des particules
DOCUMENTARY 20’36’’

director : Jules L.G.

camera operators :
Jules L.G. , Joanna Szpak ,
Just Gunter , Miyuki Warabiuchi

music : Charles-Guillaume Méla

Encounters with

Jérôme Méla
Thespian
Assistant to the artistic director
Atelier Blanche Salant & Paul Weaver

André Rubio :
Scientist
Consultant engineer CERN

A stone’s throw from Lord Byron’s rock,
an encounter between a thespian
and a scientist takes place
beneath the house where Mary Shelley
wrote « Frankenstein ».

2011
Live Shoot 22'

PATHETIQUE
Sonata N°8 in C Minor Op.13 Beethoven

interpret : Julien Quentin
Victoria Hall Genève, Suisse

« Expression of novel thought,
we feel the underlying ambition
to overcome the traditional form
of the sonata,
by audacity & disymetry. »

EXTRACT

2015
EXPERIMENTAL SHORT 13'

Nominated :
Signes de Nuit, France 2015
Cutting Edge, USA 2015
Way Down, USA 2016
Brooklyn Film Festival, USA 2017
Traverse Vidéo, France 2018

In the heart of a cave millennia old,
books fly,
pianos turn,
dimensions unravel
and, on rails of light,
bodies unfold.

Between the prism of language
and the body in movement,
man journeys towards himself.

When reality surpasses fiction,
the Spin is a pathway
from the observer’s point of view.

director : Jules L.G.

pianist : Julien Quentin

buto dancers :
Miyuki Warabiuchi & Gyohei Zaitsu

hip hop dancers : Serge & Houssin Khald

installations & performances
filmées à la Fondation Martin Bodmer,
Genève Suisse
avec la collaboration
de Jacques T. Quentin & Charles Méla

2015

MARTIN BODMER FOUNDATION
A search for the human spirit

The man who searched for
"Man’s path towards himself"

director : Jules L.G.

“ The word is a book
and those who do not travel
read only one page. ”
(St Augustin)