Qui sommes-nous ?
Jean-Michel Oberland,
Trained at the École Normale Supérieure de Musique de Paris for guitar,
at the Centre Raymond Thiberge (director of the Institut Pédagogique de Paris)
for piano and composition with composer Adolfo Mindlin.
Jean-Michel Oberland has been a composer and arranger for SACEM since 1977.
He has composed numerous pieces for concerts, television, radio,
cinema, dance and theatre: films, advertisements, reports, portraits, documentaries, etc.
In addition to his compositions, he has pursued a career as a classical guitar teacher.
Jean-Michel has been immersed in the world of cinema for many years, with everything that goes with it:
image, sound, editing, framing, colour, with an openness to the latest technologies and a desire to integrate them.
His personal musical compositions enrich the theatrical narrative.
Original music
Jean-Michel composes very different types of music: he has composed a requiem (Requiem sans Frontières)
but also songs for children. He cherishes everything related to sound, music, sound effects…
the child within him never leaves him, nor does his solemn side. He plays his musical samples to Lili:
she savours them, occasionally whispering a wish for an addition or extension.
Lili De Vooght
A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, she loves to invent stories with complete freedom.
Fascinated by the power of inspiration and intuition in science and art,
she intertwines existential and dramatic experiences.
She explores the human capacity—or inability—to rediscover or find resilience and lightness.
She loves directing: interacting with actors increases the intensity of the process and shapes its outcome.
Screenplay and direction
During her career as a doctor, Lili honed her writing skills by penning articles on psychiatry,
phenomenology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and more.
For her, the same rigour applies to writing fiction.
A screenplay for a feature film simmers on the back burner for years,
in her mind and in small notebooks, repetitive and…
without any visible coherence. At some point, the text is ready to take shape and is written on the keyboard.
Lili incorporates Jean-Michel’s suggestions: a lively exchange can take place, a compromise is sought.
From the moment they met, they were immediately inspired by each other. The result is short films,
documentaries, feature films and a large number of musical compositions.
After ‘Le guide de M. Pilou’, ‘Entre Paris et Leuven’ is their second feature film.