Another World
Manuela Morgaine, 2016
The music of this film took shape around the poem by Erri de Luca, Mare Nostrum, “Our Sea”, a variation on the Pater Noster tinged with irony. The musical idea is expressed in the composition of a “secular requiem”, based on samples of solo voices taken from various requiems, including those of Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, Pierre Vilette, or György Ligeti in Lux Aeterna, in an orchestration based on synthesised sounds that represent the omnipotence of modernity in the face of the powerlessness to prevent the tragedy unfolding today in the Mediterranean Sea.
A Cinematographic Essay by
Manuela Morgaine
Produced by
Envers Compagnie
Colour, 33 minutes
Archive research & Editing
Lucile Latour
Original Music
Philippe Langlois
This film interweaves archive footage of migratory flows across the world over the last ten years with images made on the Seine in Paris between 2015 and 2016.
MARE NOSTRUM
a secular prayer written and spoken by
Erri de Luca
with his kind permission
Translation: Danièle Valin