Satiesfictions : saunters with Erik Satie : a tribute to the French composer Erik Satie / a film by Anne-Kathrin Peitz & Youlian Tabakov ; written by Anne-Kathrin Peitz ; produced by Paul Smaczny ; a production of Accentus Music, in coproduction with WDR, in cooperation with ARTE.

The music documentary Satiesfictions is a playful portrait of Erik Satie as cultural phenomenon. True to its name, the film weaves together the tale of Satie's musical and non-musical fictions, exploring projects like his fun home-made advertisements that evolved into real commercials, or his drawin...

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Uniform Title:Medici.tv.
Corporate Authors: GrauSchumacher Piano Duo (Instrumentalist)
ACCENTUS Music (Firm) (Production company)
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Production company)
Association relative à la télévision européenne (Production company)
Other Authors: Peitz, Anne-Kathrin (Film director, Screenwriter)
Tabakov, Youlian, 1975- (Film director, Art director, Costume designer)
Smaczny, Paul (Film producer)
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925 (composer (expression))
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 (on-screen participant.)
Man Ray, 1890-1976 (on-screen participant.)
Sauguet, Henri, 1901-1989 (on-screen participant.)
Auric, Georges, 1899-1983 (on-screen participant.)
Bertin, Pierre, 1891-1984 (on-screen participant.)
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989 (on-screen participant.)
Hermann, Steffen (Editor of moving image work)
Eydmann, Maria (Instrumentalist)
Schleiermacher, Steffen (Instrumentalist)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
In French and English with English subtitles.
Published: [Leipzig, Germany] : Accentus Music, 2014.
Series:Medici.tv.
Subjects:
Satie, Erik, > 1866-1925.
Composers > France > Biography.
Composers.
France.
Nonfiction films.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Biography.
Nonfiction films.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (medici.tv EDU)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (56 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color, black and white
Format: Electronic Video
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Summary:
The music documentary Satiesfictions is a playful portrait of Erik Satie as cultural phenomenon. True to its name, the film weaves together the tale of Satie's musical and non-musical fictions, exploring projects like his fun home-made advertisements that evolved into real commercials, or his drawings of jetliners and swaying hotels that ultimately came to life as real cartoons. Remembered for his bowlers, wisecracks and various other quirks, Satie is likely one of the strangest and most versatile personalities in French music history: in addition to his work as a composer, he was a designer, church founder, PR pioneer, author, wayfarer, professional self-publicist and inventor of "Musique d'ameublement." Music à la Satie turns performers into "musical furniture" in swimming pools, factories or train stations, has aging divas to forget their performances and gives even four-legged animals-or just their bones--their spot in the limelight. Pianists perform using instruments stacked on top of each other, sometimes while covered in snowflakes. Natural landscapes, scenes from daily life and urbanistic impressions mix together in Satie's cosmos of word and sound. The film's depiction of Erik Satie's world is peppered with eyewitness accounts and interviews with Satie experts. The filmmakers alternate between outlining the artist's colorful personality and drawing their own picture of the early 20th century French avant-garde's most unusual character
Note:Title from medici.tv's website
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.
Call Number:ML410.S196 S28 2014
Playing Time:00:56:19
Credits:Editing, Steffen Herrmann ; camera, Adam Nilsson.
Participant or Performer:
Commentators, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Henri Sauguet, Pierre Bertin, Virgil Thomson, Léopold Survage, Robert Caby.
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo; Maria Eydmann, Steffen Schleiermacher, piano.
Source of Description:
Resource, viewed March 25, 2021.