This film is the first movement of Debussy’s En Blanc et Noir, a 2-piano piece written in 1915. Mixing footage from a deserted army base in East Anglia with the Californian desert, the film is a surreal journey in time studded with playful image juxtapositions and an ever changing ‘cut and paste’ collage on-screen.
 

DV 4 min 20 sec

Composed by Claude Debussy

Pianos: Katia and Marielle Labeque

Commissioned by KML Recordings as a part of a CD/DVD compilation dedicated to Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy (KML 1112/1113 ©2007).

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