All The Beauty And The Bloodshed by Laura Poitras - Official Trailer

SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE
Music for Laura Poitras' ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED feat. Nan Goldin

2022

Winner of Golden Lion, Venice

Directed by Academy Award®️-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis.

In her stunning film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, director Laura Poitras traces the life of photographer Nan Goldin across her intimate and political struggles. The photographer—whose life was profoundly marked by her sister’s depression and suicide—has continued to use photography to explore and reveal the beauty and fragility of those on the margins of society.

Upon seeing the film, the Soundwalk Collective freely associated, drawing connections with the work and life of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who was removed from society through confinement in institutions.

In his last poems, written as fragments, while he was plagued by mental illness, Hölderlin renders nature, in all its fragility and ephemerality. The theme of the fragility of life and creation that emerges in Laura's portrait of Nan Goldin served as an inspiration, and was taken up in Hölderlin’s work for the composition of the choral songs and cantus within the soundtrack.

Through the repetition of words and the layering of voices, the lyric scansion operates like a language possessed. Following this same pattern and echoing various styles from sacred music to modern minimalist techniques, the scored music produces a trance that oscillates between grace and madness.

The music is characterised by quivering strings and swells, de-tuning and lingering, shifting around the surreal. As in light going through a prism: music may have a slightly different meaning for each listener, thus creating a spectrum of musical experience, similar to a rainbow of light.


"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a bone-deep look at a photographer's fight against addiction and the institution responsible for her pain through her gritty lens."


"Masterful"


"Major Work of Art"

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Director: Laura Poitras 
Editors: Amy Foote, Joe Bini, Brian A. Kates,  A.C.E.
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Clare Carter, Alex Kwartler, Hayley Theisen  
Producers: Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, Laura Poitras 
Photography & Slideshows: Nan Goldin
Music Supervisor: Dawn Sutter Madell  
Music: Soundwalk Collective

Co-Producer: Megan Kapler 
Archival Producer: Shanti Avirgan 
Archival Co-Producer: Olivia Streisand
Featured Vocalists: Fanny Mulay Winter, Holan Gultom, Sidney Kwadjo Frenz, Youka Snell
Words And Texts: Friedrich Hölderlin
String Sessions: Anthea Caddy, Davis West, Lucas Sanchez, Lucy Railton, Marie Langlamet, Wolf Hassinger, Youka Snell
Conducting And Arranging For String Quartet: Zacharias Falkenberg

Arranging For Orchestra: Johannes Malfatti
Additional Arrangements: Aurelien Rivière
Musicians Casting: Dhanesh Jayaselan
Recording Engineer: Erik Breuer
Studio Assistants: Heinrich Matis, Rhea Sodemann, Robert Henriques
Recorded At: Analogue Foundation Berlin
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YEAR
TITLE
PROJECT
2023 - 2024
CORRESPONDENCES with Patti Smith
Exhibition, CNA Bogotà, TPMM Tbilisi, FIM Guadalajara, MAMM Medellin
2023 - 2024
CORRESPONDENCES - Live
Live Performance
2023
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED - Live
Live Performance
2023
MAISON GAINSBOURG with Charlotte Gainsbourg
Soundtrack, Maison Gainsbourg Paris
2022
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED by Laura Poitras
Film Score
2022 - 2024
EVIDENCE with Patti Smith
Museum Exhibition, Centre Pompidou Paris, CCB Lisbon
2022
IGUANA TOKYO by Kaan Mujdeci
Film Score
2021
LOVOTIC with Charlotte Gainsbourgfeat. AtomTM, Lyra Pramuk, Paul B. Preciado, Willem Dafoe
Audiovisual Installation, FOROF Rome
2021
MEMORY LOST by Nan Goldin
Film Score
2021
A ROOF FOR SILENCE by Hala Warde
Sound Installation, Venice Architecture Biennale
2020
PERADAM with Patti Smithfeat. Anoushka Shankar, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tenzin Choegyal
Album LP
2020
WE ARE NOT ALONE with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hussain Al Jassmi, Nina Kraviz, Willem Dafoe, Wim Wenders, Zhou Dongyu, Jean Nouvel
Sound Installation, Louvre Abu Dhabi
2019
THE TIME OF THE NIGHT with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Patti Smith
Sound Installation, Fondation Carmignac
2019
MUMMER LOVE with Patti Smithfeat. Philip Glass, Mulatu Astatke and the Sufi Group of Sheikh Ibrahim
Album LP
2019
THE PEYOTE DANCE with Patti Smith
feat. Gael García Bernal and the Rarámuri Indians of the Sierra Tarahumara
Album LP
2019
THE WOMEN’S MARCH, 1789 by Nan Goldin
Sound Installation, Palace of Versailles
2019
OSCILLATION
Sound Installation, Philharmonie de Paris
2019
AYAHUASQUEROS
Audiovisual Installation, Times Square 'Midnight Moment', NYC
2019
MIRAGE
Sound Installation, Louvre Abu Dhabi
2019
SIBERIA by Abel Ferrara
Film Score
2018
DEATH MUST DIE
Album LP
2018
ULYSSES SYNDROME
Sound Installation, Manifesta12 Palermo
2018
EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos by Sasha Waltz
Score for Dance Choreography
2018
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
Audiovisual Installation, Kraftwerk Berlin
2018
KREATUR by Sasha Waltz
Score for Dance Choreography
2017
TRANSMISSIONS
Album LP
2017
RESONANCE
Sound Installation, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2017
BEFORE MUSIC THERE IS BLOOD
Album LP
2017
PRINCES AMONG MEN by Stephan Crasneanscki
Film Score
2016
KHANDROMA
Audiovisual Installation, Rubin Museum, NYC
2016
KILLER ROAD with Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith
Album LP
2015
A MEMOIR OF DISINTEGRATION with Nan Goldin, Samuel Rohrer and Tina Frank
Audiovisual Performance, CTM Festival, Berlin
2014
SONS OF THE WIND
Film Score and Album LP
2009
KILL THE EGO by Ro Starr
Film Score
2008
CHANEL MOBILE ART by Zaha Hadid
Sound Installation, Hong Kong, Tokyo, NYC

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