Manuel Göttsching On Screen

Le berceau de cristal OmeU
F 1975, 72 min, Director/camera/screenplay/montage: Philippe Garrel, with: Nico, Dominique Sanda, Frédéric Pardo, Margareth Clémenti, Anita Pallenberg, Philippe Garrel, Music: Ash Ra Tempel
“Le Berceau de Cristal“ (soundtrack excerpt)
Manuel Göttsching and Lutz Graf-Ulbrich aka Lüül at the E-Live Festival in Oirschot (NL)
D/NL 2015, 14 min, Camera: Aleksandra Przybylska-Kursa, Kris Miko. Post production: Markus Schickel

The next installment of our series exploring the music of Manuel Göttsching and moving images is a screening Le berceau de cristal (1975) by Philippe Garrel. The soundtrack is by the Berlin-based Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, featuring Manuel Göttsching (guitar, Farfisa organ, rhythm computer) and Lutz Graf-Ulbrich aka Lüül (guitar, synth guitar), mixed and produced by Manuel Göttsching.
Le berceau de cristal is one of seven independently produced experimental films that the French director made with singer, musician, actress, and poetess Nico, his partner at the time. The hypnagogic film has since become a cult classic and is considered one of the most important films of 1970s French cinema. When commissioning the soundtrack, Garrel asked Ash Ra Tempel for: “Music you can dream to…”
In 2025, Le berceau de cristal was digitally restored by the Paris-based avant-garde film distributor Re:Voir for its first-ever release on DVD and Blu-ray.


Following the film, we will show an exclusive video excerpt from Manuel Göttsching and Lüül’s live performance of the film score in 2015 at the E-Live Festival in Oirschot, Netherlands.
Q&A with Lutz Graf-Ulbrich and Markus Schickel, editor/media designer/sound engineer and longtime technical collaborator of Manuel Göttsching, about the creation of the film score as well as its place in music history.
Event in collaboration with MG ART as part of Soundwatch Bonus Tracks. Courtesy of Philippe Garrel.