Production
Silverfilm

Producers
Jonny Silver, Michael Macina

Director
Jonny Silver

Screenplay
Jonny Silver, Owen Burgess

Photography
Dennis Pike, Piergiorgio Bottos, Robert Fresco

Sound
David Millar

Music
Claude Vivier

Cast
Germain Houde, Denis Forest, Ivan Beaulieu
With
György Ligeti, Gilles Tremblay, Michel-Georges Bregent, Walter Boudreau, John Rea, Denis Bouliane, Pauline Vaillancourt, Louis-Phillippe Peletier, Les événements du neuf, Tudor Singers of Montreal, Julie West Dance Company

Featuring the voices of
David Fox, Pierre Granger, Serge Garant, Robert Sunter and Claude Vivier

Première at the Montreal World Film Festival
Broadcast on CBC, SRC, TVO, TFO, Antenne II and Bravo!

76:00 English/French

Available through Canadian Music Centre
Chalmers House, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4Y 1J9
Tel: 416 961 6601 Fax: 416 961 7198 Web: www.musiccentre.ca
LONELY CHILD
The Imaginary World of Claude Vivier

“… one of the greatest composers of his generation…”
György Ligeti
A few years after receiving the Canadian Composer of the Year Award, avant-garde composer Claude Vivier was found murdered in his Paris apartment. Lonely Child, a feature length docu-drama, explores the events that led to his tragic death and why his colleagues called him “an angel by day and devil by night.”

Shot in Montreal, Toronto, Montepulciano, Vienna and Paris, the film features concert performances of Vivier music, archival footage, interviews with associates and dramatic re-enactments of pivotal moments in the composer’s life. It creates a magical world of changing realities haunted by the spirit of Claude Vivier.