Eldorado

Eldorado/Preljocaj

by Olivier Assayas

France -2008

Sunday, June 2nd • 4PM
At Bophana Center

Documentary - 90mn

Color

MusicKarl Heinz Stockhausen

CastAngelin Preljocaj, Karlheinz Stockhausen

GenreDocumentary around the choregraphy work of Angelin Preljocaj

SynopsisOlivier Assayas closely follows the process of creation of “Eldorado”, choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj.

AboutOlivier Assayas, who directs actors and camera in his films as a choreographer would do, was seduced by Preljocaj’s universe and the challenge it represented : how to give his universe, atmosphere of meditation instilled by the ballet. The sweetness of gestures, the arms flapping like wings, floating caresses and a new collusion with Karl Heinz Stockhausen’s music, these were the elements Preljocaj used to translate this “voodoo sound form”.

Selective filmography of Olivier Assayas
(born in 1955)

1989 – L’enfant de l’hiver (Winter’s Child)

1994 – L’eau froidew (Cold Water)

1994 – Irma Vep

1998 – Fin août – début septembre (Late August, Early September)

2000 – Les destinées sentimentales (Sentimental Destinies)

2008 – L’heure d’été (Summer Hours)

2010 – Carlos

2012 – Après mai (Something in the Air)

With the courtesy of Institut français