Movies: Pierre Henry

First the atomic war broke out, new machines were made, dead birds appeared. In 1999, a bacteriological warfare began, there were sandstorms and giant locust infestations; the human tissue was transformed and a new being, once legendary, now real, em...

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack....

A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds....

A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing cheetah. She begs him to return to Africa with her, but he doesn’t want to leave his wife. Soon his wife fi...

An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the...

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they don't get on their feet, they don't talk to each other, and the only sounds heard are voices coming fr...

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A priest succumbs to the charms of his lovely cleaning lady and decides to find a husband when she finds herself pregnant with her works....

A psychedelic combination of Shakespeare, rock & roll and Catholic symbolism in the shape of a Cuban ballet....

The "Symphony for a man alone" was composed from 1949 to 1950 by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and then finalised in 12 movements by Pierre Henry in 1951. This is the first major work of musique concrete. In 1955, Maurice Béjart has made the fi...

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In 1963, Maurice Fleuret wrote of Thierry Vincens: “...Vincens' cinematographic projections are more than a sumptuous abstract cinema number, more than a visual illustration of an interior world whose music echoes to us, [...] a lyrical synthesis wh...

Experimental French composer Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of musique concrete, is the subject of this documentary that traces his development of a new sound that shocked the music world. During the 1950s, the radical innovator and his colleague ...