Movie
What We Can Know About Edmond and Basile
2025 · 85 min
A quiet, scholarly documentary that recovers forgotten musical lives, moving patiently through archives and history with reverence and a soft sense of loss.
- Directed by
- Sascha Just
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Overview
- An exploration of Edmond Dédé and Basile Barès were 19th-century New Orleans composers of color. Dédé, born free, was an orchestral composer and violist, known for his opera Morgiane. Barès, born into slavery, was a pianist and composer of music for dance halls, unique for being the only known American composer with a copyright assigned to his work while enslaved.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Music, race, art, identity
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Sascha Just
- Genres
- Documentary, Music