East with Sonia WiederAtherton

Presented in 2 parts this 83 minute piece documents WiederAthertons idea to do a set of pieces from across central and eastern Europe including Russia Some werent originally written for cello but she had them transcribed Some were songs for voices which goes with WiederAtherton saying in an earlier film she made with Chantal Akerman that she aspires to play the cello in a way that it carries the specificity of emotion of the human voice She explains at the beginning of both parts how she feels each country in the region has its own personality expressed in its music coming from its individual history and culture but that each land in the area is also impregnated as she puts it by the others so there are certain elements that run throughout