POLLOCK & POLLOCK (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 

POLLOCK & POLLOCK

(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Director Isabelle Rebre

Music composed by Olivier Mellano

Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd

The film tells the story of two brothers, the American painters Charles and Jackson Pollock, with a landscape of a piece of American history. Although distant, as much by their personalities as by their works, the Pollocks are linked by a name, by fraternity. Jackson, the youngest, is put on the path of painting by Charles, who embodies during his formative years a figure of model. Once Jackson is revealed on the public stage, Charles becomes "the brother of" and will have to deal with this weight. The dazzling trajectory of the pollock icon, exhibited as a myth of the self-made man, stops in a car accident when he is 44 years old. Charles, meanwhile, pursues all his life a free work, away from the markets. It is only today that his works come out of the closets. Through the journeys of these two painters, the film tells a story of shadow and light.

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This music is essentially inspired by the energy and vibration of Charles Pollock's paintings. Their structures, sometimes soothed at times intense, both static and dynamic, gave the framework and direction of the musical themes carried by the piano. The flow of historical time has been supported by the drums by crossing a rhythmic chronology of jazz which, by the same tot, telescope and sets in motion the apparent stability in play. The tension and complementary balance of these two poles also embodies, between words and images, the relationship of brothers Charles and Jackson Pollock. With their great talent, the formidable musicians Eve Risser and Régis Boulard have breathed life into these themes.

Olivier Mellano

Composer

The great luck is to have been able to think about the music with Olivier Mellano even before the shooting. The film is based on the epistolary correspondence of the Pollock brothers from 1929. Music is the landscape in which they evolved then in New York. We wanted it to be detached from the historical context, but for it to come back with quotations, more or less ghostly. We imagined the exchange between Charles Pollock and Jackson Pollock as a dialogue between two instruments. The idea was not to literally associate the piano and drums with each of the characters, but rather to make them evolve between two energies, two polarities: shadow and light, spontaneity and reasoning, movement and stillness, tension or appeasement.

Isabelle Rèbre

Director

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