Directed by Benoît Toulemonde
Music & Sound by Nils Frahm
Produced by
Alix Turrettini - Bobine
Benoît Toulemonde - Stances
Director of Photography : Thomas Lallier
Focus Puller : Anaïs Ravel-Chapuis
Aerial Photography / Soulcam : Gérôme Lachkine - Pierre Petit - Éric Martinez
Boom Operator : Jean-Baptiste Aubonnet
Assistant director : Leslie Lagier
Costume Designer : Clara Lyonnet
Location manager : Thibault Spiral
Location Security manager : Antoine Allier
Production Manager - Bobine : Maud Naïmi & François Tessier
Production Manager - Stances : Justine Sementzeff
Post-production Stances / Paris
Edited by Benoît Toulemonde
Assistant Film Editor : Nicolas Rochette
Post production Supervisor : Émilie Barbin
Colorist David Bouhsira
Title design Sébastien Wyseur
Lawyers : Didier Felix / Asterix Westphal
Music recording and film sound mixing
Durton Studio / Berlin
Final Sound Mixing at Yellow Cab Studios / Paris : Éric Lesachet
Original Soundtrack
Momentum - Counterpoints - First Defeat - All Rhythm - Undercurrent - Black Notes
Written and performed by Nils Frahm
Published by Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd.
Courtesy of Erased Tapes Records Ltd.
Solo upright piano recorded in two summer nights
in 2012 at Durton Studio in Berlin
Empty the album is available on Erased Tapes
www.erasedtapes.com · www.nilsfrahm.com
© 2020 Bobine - Stances
· watch Empty below
“The toughest part was over at least! After a long French-style dinner with my dear friend and film director Benoit Toulemonde in Berlin, I started to set up the recording of what would become the music for our short film, Empty. You may have never heard of it because its unusual editing techniques – showing completely black images for minutes, playing only music – never made it into a big "box office hit". Or because we wanted the movie to be shown in proper cinemas while it's not even 30 minutes long. Personally, I believe that the main actor (me) wasn't such a great cast after all. Back from shooting in the French wintery alps, I indeed felt more comfortable in my studio with headphones on than having a huge camera pointing at me.”
— Nils Frahm