Longplay

Media

Film around the music.

Films, projections and moving image around live music — from our own projects to commissions, education and shows made for the big screen.

Our Shows

2 films

Films from the stages Longplay's team works on — our own productions, and the festivals we programme — shot as they happen.

  • Sancy Snow Jazz Festival — Promo Video 2026

  • Cazaudehore Swing Summit — teaser

Commissions

5 films

Films for festivals, musicians and cultural organisations — made by someone who already knows how a jazz set moves and where to be for the moment that matters. If you need it filmed properly, not just recorded, get in touch.

  • Put it on the list — videoclip

  • Jingle Belles, Louis Prima Forever — videoclip

  • Paradise Creek Band — teaser

  • Satchmocracy — teaser

  • FestJazz — teaser

Big Screen

2 shows

Live shows where the moving image is part of the performance itself — ciné-concerts and projection work, with the musicians on stage beside the screen. All Big Screen shows →

Silence, Action… Jazz!

Three Blind Mice performs live beside the screen for silent films by Chaplin, Keaton, Méliès and a few animated gems: original jazz, improvisation and hand-made sound effects, created in front of the audience. Jazz from the 1910s to the 1930s meets the image, with occasional nods to familiar classical repertoire. The audience sees both the film and the musicians building its soundtrack in real time: a direct encounter between image, rhythm, humour and invention. The general-public ciné-concert runs about 1h20. School versions are available in 30- and 60-minute formats, with time to discover the instruments, sound effects and how the show is made. When a public performance is booked, a school performance or educational encounter can often be added the day before or after, subject to timetable and local conditions.

More about Silence, Action… Jazz! →

Made in Trompettes

Made in Trompettes is a concert-show that explores the world of the great jazz trumpeters through a stage language in which music, narration and visual creation answer one another. Conceived and performed by Michel Bonnet with Philippe Carment, Laurent Vanhée and Stéphane Roger, it becomes a vivid journey through the memory of swing, shaped by Francesca Musetti’s video and projection work, Franck Gervais’s staging, anecdotes, playful references and live humour. More than a simple tribute, the show brings acoustic tradition into dialogue with contemporary tools — projection, video mapping and looping — so that the trumpet becomes story, memory and character in its own right. A 45–60 minute school version retains the four musicians and projections; it can be complemented by a separate 45–60 minute participatory workshop around breath, vibration and sound production, with no previous musical knowledge required. When a public performance is booked, the school offer can often be scheduled the day before or after, subject to routing, timetable and local conditions.

More about Made in Trompettes →

Education

1 offer

Francesca Musetti — Media Education & Music + Image

Video and media-education workshops led by Francesca Musetti, from framing, interviewing and filming to editing and shared audiovisual outcomes. The offer can stand alone or combine with Longplay musicians in Music + Image projects.

With Longplay musicians it becomes a Music + Image project: pupils make music and film it, ask the players their questions, and finish with an audiovisual trace they made together.

  1. FramingChoosing what is in the picture, and what is left out.
  2. InterviewingPreparing a question, then listening for the answer.
  3. FilmingSound and image captured by the pupils themselves.
  4. EditingTurning a day of material into one shared trace.
  5. Media literacyHow an image is made, and what it does to what we see.
  6. Sound & imageWhat changes when music is watched, not only heard.
CREMIT — Università Cattolica di Milano
Media educator, trainer and researcher: projects for pupils from maternelle to lycée, and for parents and teachers.
Young people aged 3–17
Co-founded and directed cultural and educational projects: short films with teenagers, stop-motion, digital-practice workshops.
Video workshops for students
Designed and led alongside her own production and editing work.
JazzAscona, 2009–2012
Official video director for the festival.

Commission a film, or request footage

New shoots with Francesca and requests for existing Longplay footage both start here.

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