Musics for movies
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi has written several film scores in collaboration with directors such as Henry Colomer, Olivier Mille and Alain Fleischer.
He worked for producers such as Archipel33, Amip, Mezzo, Arte, la5 and Atopic.
Arnold Böcklin, un peintre aux portes de l’inconscient - 2001
Original music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi composed the music for this documentary on Arnold Böcklin. Beginning with The Isle of the Dead, the film explores the painter’s imaginary landscapes, mythological subjects and influence on Symbolism and later artists.
Director: Olivier Mille; written with Robert Kopp
Production: Artline Films, Musée d’Orsay, C-Films and Réunion des musées nationaux
Year: 2001
Duration: 30 minutes
La frontière et la guerre - 2003
Original music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi composed music for Pierre-Olivier François’s documentary on the history and division of the Korean peninsula. The film examines the conflicts and international rivalries that shaped the border between North and South Korea, and the continuing geopolitical consequences of that separation.
Director: Pierre-Olivier François
Production: Artline Films and ARTE France
Year: 2003
Duration: 52 minutes
Un voyage des Bourgeois de Calais - 2003
Original music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi composed the music for Alain Fleischer’s documentary following Rodin’s sculpture from Calais to Rome. Its restoration in the gardens of the Villa Medici becomes an opportunity to discover the history, expressive power and technical construction of The Burghers of Calais.
Director: Alain Fleischer
Production: Artline Films, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, France 3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie and CRRAV
Year: 2003
Duration: 46 minutes
Odilon Redon, peintre des rêves - 2011
Original music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi composed music for Michaël Gaumnitz’s documentary devoted to Odilon Redon. The film explores the painter’s inner world, his imagination and his relationship with dreams, presenting an artist whose work moved beyond the artistic schools of his time.
Director: Michaël Gaumnitz
Production: AMIP, RMN-Grand Palais and Bibliothèque nationale de France, in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay, with the participation of France 5
Year: 2011
Duration: 52 minutes
Television broadcast: April 7, 2011 - France 5.
Les hommes du fer - 2011
Original music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi composed music for this two-part documentary by Anaïs and Olivier Spiro. The series follows the history of the steel industry over 150 years, tracing the intertwined fortunes of France and Germany through the lives of the people who worked with iron and steel.
Director: Anaïs Spiro and Olivier Spiro
Production: Point du Jour for ARTE France
Year: 2011
Duration: 2 × 52 minutes
Television broadcast: May 22, 2012 - ARTE.
Mission France, la croisade de l’abondance - 2018
Original music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi wrote the original score for Henry Colomer’s documentary on the Marshall Plan and the promotion of a new consumer society in post-war France. Drawing on archival material, the film examines how economic assistance was accompanied by a large-scale campaign celebrating productivity, abundance and consumption.
Director: Henry Colomer
Production: INA - Institut national de l’audiovisuel; broadcaster: Histoire TV
Year: 2018
Duration: 93 minutes
Television broadcast: July 1, 2019 - Histoire TV.
Talismans - 2022
Original music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi composed the original music for Talismans, a documentary by Henry Colomer. Through personal memories, conversations and stories across generations, the film explores how words, poems and books can sustain people through difficult times. Its intimate accounts connect the experience of the past with the present.
Director: Henry Colomer
Production: Saraband Films, Studio Lemon; co-produced with Vosges TV
Year: 2022
Duration: 83 minutes
The film received the Georges Duby Historical Documentary Award in 2022 at Les Rendez-vous de l’histoire in Blois [France].
Nocturnes 2006
Director – Henry Colomer
Music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Fiction movie
2006 – 1h15 minutes
Production – Denis Freyd – Archipel 33
Distribution – Memento Films
End of the 50’s. One yound spanish child discovers everydaylife’s worries and difficulties. His father leaves his family to go for war in Algeria. His childish world evolves and transformes itself. Memories, dreams and imagination follows each other through 9 scenes bringing us a real cinematographical childhood chronicle.
Le Roi Rodin 2002
Director – Alain Fleischer
Music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
2002 – 1h20 minutes
Production – Artline Films
Distribution – Artline Films
In the 8 March 2008 early morning, in front of a fervent and contemplative crowd, August Rodin ‘s master-piece « Calais’ Bourgeois » is removed from its pedestal. The immense crane carries it onto a transportation truck that will cary the statue to the Medici’s roman villa in order to restore it. Taking part to the italian journey of the « Bourgeois », Alain Fleischer invites us to an astonishing exploration of the aesthetic world of Rodin. He slips inside the realm of the sculptor, showing us his intimate passion for the body and for the intrisic beauty of these human beings whith whom he plays through infinite combinations.
Sous les drapeaux 2008
Sous les drapeaux
Documentary film directed by Henry Colomer produced for Arte with original movie soundtrack by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Producer – Amip
Coproducers – Arte and Orchestre d’Île de France
Length – 52 minutes more or less
Broadcasted on television on November 11, 2008
Premium musical performance in Paris on November 11, 2008
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi writes a musical piece for orchestra, specially for electro-acoustic live playing string quartet. This musical piece has been writen for the 90th commemoration year of the armistice signature of World War I happening on the 11th of November 2008. The visual dimension of the movie is exclusively composed of records taken from the very beginning of the late 19th century and till the 1930’s. With no voice-over, comments or cardboards, the music accompagnies on its own the commemoration of the event.
IDDU - Jean-Michel Fauquet’s workshop 2008
Director – Henry Colomer
Music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
Documentary film
2008- 52 minutes
Production – Tarmak
Distribution – Tarmak
Join the artiste along his work and through its maturation. The artwork is made of movements. Seize through the narratif path of the movie the essays and the attemps the convolutions, findings and failures ledding to the blossom of a meaningfull mess.
Play the movieL'Exilé (Victor Hugo) 2002
Director – Henry Colomer
Music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
2002 – 52 minutes
Production – Artline Films, Arte France, BNF, Musée d’Orsay
Distribution – Artline Films
Through the texts and drawings of Victor Hugo, take part to an autobiographical immersion into the creative intimacy of the exiled poet, still in struggle with history. As a travel diary, the drawings and works of Victor Hugo allows us to percieve, year after year, the tumultuous parts of his life. From 1851 to 1870, he had to exil himself from France after the coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte. His public speeches and positions against « Little Napoleon » or against the death penalty has to be related with more personnal, intimate and existancial meditations inwhich the autor was engaged : « Our life is made of death, this about how the lteeriyng law is. We are sepulchers. »