Monday, January 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
REDCAT, Los Angeles
D’Est en Musique presents Chantal Akerman’s semi-fictional travelogue in a musical collaboration with her partner, celebrated cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, performed live by Wieder-Atherton and award-winning pianist Sarah Rothenberg. Akerman’s 16mm film, first shown in 1993, was shot in Poland, Ukraine, East Germany, and Russia amidst the unstable period following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Observing landscapes and people, the poignant film evokes an uneasy malaise through long, extended shots and looping repetition. Akerman re-edited the film in 2005 and paired it with musical selections by Wieder-Atherton that include masterworks by composers including Béla Bartók, Frédéric Chopin, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Alfred Schnittke, and Boris Tchaikovsky. Presented in collaboration with Monday Evening Concerts. From the Baroque to the contemporary, whenever Sonia Wieder-Atherton takes on a challenge it is like diving body and soul into the ocean of captive sounds we call music. — Le Monde Presented with permission by the Philharmonie de Paris in partnership with Chantal Akerman Foundation, Cinematek Brussels, following a 2024 premiere at Salle des Concerts Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris.