Benoît Burello (a.k.a Bed) / Alexandre Dovjenko

Black-and-white film, 75 min.

A true epic and lyrical poem, The Earth, directed in 1930 by the Ukrainian Alexander Dovjenko, is one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. This black and white film, which deals with the collectivisation of land and the disappearance of the old world of the kulaks, is striking above all for its exceptional pictorial qualities. The sensitive and fragmented narrative leaves plenty of room for the graphic beauty of the images of nature, as in the famous close-up shot of the pile of apples or the sequences of wheat fields swept by the wind.

At the invitation of the Soirées Nomades, Benoît Burello deploys his talent as a composer, his precision and his delicacy to set this major film to music. This demanding artist is one of the most respected French musicians of his generation. The beauty of his compositions, the quality of his arrangements and his taste for detail characterise his intimate universe. An admirer of Mark Hollis, Robert Wyatt and Jim O'Rourke, he has developed a singular style of writing which, although one can detect the influence of his models, gives his pieces an incomparable elegance, colour and depth.