The Crossing

A film of the making of the new Tiersen album Les Retrouvailles La Traversée The Crossing was made by young director Aurelie du Boys Tiersen says he wanted to fix the moment immortalize it on film as something freshly created with each of his different collaborators Jane Birkin Liz Frazer of Cocteau Twins Stuart Staples of Tindersticks Dominique A and Christophe Miossec A musical documentary where you see the musicians struggling with the computer finetuning the recording smoking a cigarette against the sea spray of Ouessant or riding a scooter down the islands pebbly tracks