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Everybody calls me Mike

The collaboration with Guillaume Bonnier, director of this first feature film, took an unexpected ro
ute: starting out with an electronic/acoustic option to accompany the dry side of the story, a more emotional component gradually imposed itself.
Released in July 2023.

Olivier Deparis · Tout le monde m'appelle Mike

Red turtle

Michaël Dudok de Wit, director of the Franco-Japanese animated film La Tortue rouge (released in September 2016), had selected two works from a number of proposals.  Unfortunately, the production chose the other composer, who had been in the business longer. In any case, a wonderful encounter!
These video extracts are based on a working stage of the images as they were provided to me at the time.

Fidelio: Alice's Journey

Some non selected proposals for Lucie Borteleau's film . Others can be heard in my own private library

Olivier Deparis · Yamabuki

Yamabuki

Extract from an interview with Juiro Yamasaki, the film's director:
"The music, too, introduces a certain distortion between the real and the imaginary. It is unusual in its choice of timbres, with crystalline, metallic and percussive sounds. What guidelines did you give your composer, Olivier Deparis?
J.Y: I made the film without any music in mind, but I wanted to introduce a bit of humor and irony, which music allows, because the film was pulling too hard on the dramatic side. It was in danger of becoming too heavy. The music became a counterpoint to add lightness and distance. Olivier and Terutarô Osanaï, my producer, and I discussed this at length. We came up with the idea of using the toy piano as an instrument to recreate the innocence of a child playing a miniature piano. I told Olivier that I wanted the music to be about innocent angels playing tricks on the protagonists' destinies, and he did an excellent job."

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2022 "Ttigre d'or" selection
Cannes 2022 ACID selection
Release in 2023 (Japan: January, France: August)

Volver a mirar

Using shared archive footage, eight Chilean filmmakers were invited to reflect on utopias and take a look at the changes that have taken place in Chile over the last 50 years. Among the 8 short films included in UTOPIAS, Pamela Varela's Volver a mirar focuses on the stories of a few women of very different ages, backgrounds and walks of life, their memories, experiences and emotions. The music, in turn "of" and "in" the film, seeks to help liberate, then welcome and accompany these emotions.

Olivier Deparis · Volver a mirar

Demos/proposals for past projects

Soundtracks

A Christmas Tale

Arnaud Desplechin had asked me to compose the music for this "little theater" to be post-synchronized to the sequence. It had to sound like the actors were actually playing.