SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Brando. Just premiered by NPR, the acclaimed French-Austrian artist, choreographer and director Gisèle Vienne has made a film titled Brando, inspired by, and using, Scott Walker + Sunn O)))’s song of the same name (which appears on their collaborative album, Soused, out this week). With Vienne interpreting the tracks themes, the filming took place in a remote 1968 chalet in the French Alps with the story revolving around three performers - a dancer (Anja Röttgerkamp), a teenager (Léon Rubbens), and French arts icon Catherine Robbe-Grillet. With Gisèle a frequent collaborator with Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, they will be presenting Kindertotenlieder later this month - a hybrid dance theatre work she has choreographed with Stephen part of a musical duo to accompany the performers. Scott Walker and the members of Sunn O))) know the depths of darkness, and in their own ways wrest the sublime from it with violence and grace. In 2009, the latter (a drone-doom metal duo of the loudest pedigree) approached the 60s pop icon turned avant composer and asked him to contribute vocals to the Monoliths & Dimensions track Alice. The timing wasnt right, but it planted the seeds for what would become Soused, an inspired pairing that matches Walkers spellbinding compositions and harrowing voice with Sunn O)))s metallic abyss. For both artists, Brando is an unlikely yet perfect introduction to Soused. Imagine the scene: a crooner in crushed velvet opens the stage with dramatic synth strings and a riff that abstracts Sweet Child O Mine. The familiar, Sunn O)))-level feedback soon enters, but under the direction of Walker, its restrained in the face of the ridiculousness thats just occurred. Brando comes with a stirring short film directed by French artist and choreographer Gisèle Vienne, whos collaborated with Sunn O)))s Stephen OMalley on a number of performances. A teenage boy with tousled hair stares into the distance and locks himself in a dark room, dancer Anja Röttgerkamp (playing his mother, perhaps) moves with ache and acute horror in a cliffside house, and after long shots of fog blanketing the countryside, French actress Catherine Robbe-Grillet — a dominatrix and author of the 1957 sadomasochistic erotic novel LImage — happens upon a scene of unknown violence. Its bewildering, fraught with terror thats unspoken. Vienne and the band chose not to comment on the meaning of the film, but it does visually echo Walkers recent interview with The Quietus: Its a song of unfulfilled longing. A song of masochistic longing, inspired by the actor Marlon Brandos tendency to get beaten up in the films hes in. A film by Gisèle Vienne Music : Brando, from the album Soused by Scott Walker + SUNN O))) With Anja Röttgerkamp, Léon Rubbens and Catherine Robbe-Grillet Production : Same Art, 4AD, DACM With the participation of LUX-Scène nationale de Valence Produced by Amélie Couillaud & Dimitri Chamblas Written and directed by Gisèle Vienne Director of photography : Sylvestre Dedise Editor : Caroline Detournay Choreography : Gisèle Vienne Line producer : Edouard Bonnet Special advisers : Patric Chiha & Lucile Hadzihalilovic Make-up & hair stylism : Mélanie Gerbeaux, assisted by Elise Feuillade Costume design : Gisèle Vienne & Sonia Philouze, assisted by Emma Bursztejn Gaffer : Kevin Ramalho First camera assistant : Nadja Anane Assistant to Catherine Robbe-Grillet : Beverley Charpentier Post-production : Firm Colour grading : Nicolas Gautier with the participation of Estelle Hanania Flame artist : Erwan Bouché End titles : Stephen O’Malley & Pierre de Domingo Artistic dossier : Pierre de Domingo Accounting : Pierre Garry Suppliers : Panalux, Buffaloc, The BOX, Day’n’Light Support : Anne-Lise Gobin & Alix Sarrade Music written by Noel Engel Produced by Scott Walker Co-produced & Recorded by Peter Walsh SUNN O))) : Stephen O’Malley, Greg Anderson, TOS Nieuwenhuizen Mixed by Peter Walsh & Scott Walker Musical Director : Mark Warman Electronic Sounds Treatment & Manipulation : Mark Warman & Peter Walsh Voice : Scott Walker Guitars : Greg Anderson Guitars, Bass Guitar : Stephen O’Malley Moog, Lead Guitar : TOS Nieuwenhuizen Drums : Ian Thomas Keyboards : Mark Warman Trumpet : Guy Barker Whip : Peter Gamble Drum Programming : Peter Walsh & Mark Warman Keyboards FX : Peter Walsh Soused / 4AD CAD 3428 / Noel Scott Engel © 2014 Music published by Tilt Productions Ltd (PRS/MCPS) Scott Walker Management : Negus-Fancey Company Acknowledgements : Didier Bouchet, Ludovic Jagielski, Manu Majastre, Raphael Rubbens, Estelle Rullier, Jean-Paul Vienne, Dorothea Vienne-Pollak, Geoffroy Vigne, and Erès as well as Karen Barel, Jean-Jacques Cabuy, Dennis Cooper, PLATO (Séverine Péan, Carine Hilly and Julie Le Gall), Peter Rehberg, and Catherine Rossi-Batôt © Same Art / 4AD / DACM – 2014 The Indian name Omaha means Dwellers on the bluff. Marlon Brando was born in Omaha Nebraska.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:17:53 +0000
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