{"id":1181,"date":"2012-05-21T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:13:23","slug":"le-territoire-des-autres-de-francois-bel-et-gerard-vienne-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippelanglois.net\/lcd\/en\/le-territoire-des-autres-de-francois-bel-et-gerard-vienne-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"LE TERRITOIRE DES AUTRES de Fran\u00e7ois Bel et Gerard Vienne (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text and the video excerpt below document Philippe Langlois\u2019s book, Les cloches d\u2019Atlantis, Musique \u00e9lectroacoustique et cin\u00e9ma, Arch\u00e9ologie et histoire d\u2019un art sonore,<\/em> <\/a>\u00e9ditions mf, Paris, 2012.<\/p>\n

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In Le territoire des autres (1970), \u201cdeliberately conceived for image and sound to the exclusion of words\u201d, Fran\u00e7ois Bel and G\u00e9rard Vienne shot, over six years, more than forty-five kilometres of images of animals across the whole of Europe. Having as yet no experience as directors, they shoot the sequences without a plan or any preconceived idea. Michel Fano offers to edit the image on a musical structure \u201cin the manner of the fugue that Eisenstein used for October\u201d. For more than a year, he becomes, at the editing table, the a posteriori director of the film. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cCreation takes place at the stage of the scissors and the tape, on the table in relation to the image and in relation to the two, three or four sounds associated with the sound phenomenon\u201d.<\/p>\n

\t    Michel Fano can thus modify the picture editing of certain scenes in relation to the sound conception he has of them. It is thus that, progressively, images and sounds adapted to one another and became interlocked. The film then took the form of a symphony in ten movements (pollution, camouflage, survival, reproduction, the cry of animals, etc.), with an overture and a coda. Instrumental sounds are integrated into natural sounds and then into transformed sounds until the sought-after sonic continuum is created.<\/p>\n

Opening credits<\/p>\n