Petit Lou

The music of this film, composed and interpreted by Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, was born out of a need to exorcise a loss.
Similarly, the images came out of the pain and deep sorrow caused by learning of the death of two little girls, Alison (12) and Amélia (6).
They both drowned when Amélia fell into a swollen river and Alison jumped in to try to save her little sister.
I learned of that sad event while listening to this music, and the two became one.
The film is a feeble attempt at making visible what Yehudi Menuhin so beautifully said: "Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life, the servant of love."