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== ECM and film ==
The label has a special relation towards film and directors.<ref>for detailed information see Lake: Horizons Touched (2010), p. 115–133</ref> Founder [[Manfred Eicher]] himself is a very passionate movie viewer and directed in 1990 an adaption of [[Max Frisch]]'s ''[[Man in the Holocene|Holozän]]'' together with [[Heinz Bütler]].<ref>Lake: Horizons Touched (2010), p. 7-12</ref><ref name="ecmrecords1">{{cite web |url=http://www.ecmrecords.com/About_ECM/Founder/index.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331174015/http://www.ecmrecords.com/About_ECM/Founder/index.php |archive-date=2014-03-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The label has also released some soundtracks e.g. for [[The Return (2003 film)|''The Return'']] (2003) by [[Andrey Zvyagintsev]] or ''[[Nouvelle Vague (1990 film)|Nouvelle Vague]]'' (ECM NewSeries 1600-01) and ''[[Histoire(s) du cinéma]]'' (ECM NewSeries 1706) by French-Swiss director [[Jean-Luc Godard]]. This collaboration expanded over the years and led on the one hand into the contribution of several stills from Godard's movies for covers like ''Morimur'' (ECM NewSeries 1765) by [[Christoph Poppen]], ''Asturiana - Songs from Spain and Argentinia'' (ECM NewSeries 1975) by [[Kim Kashkashian]] or the 2011 ''Live at Birdland'' (ECM 2162) by [[Lee Konitz]]/[[Brad Mehldau]]/[[Charlie Haden]]/[[Paul Motian]].<ref>Kern: Der Blaue Klang (2010), p. 99-111</ref> On the other hand, Eicher took over the musical direction of many of Godard's films like ''[[Germany Year 90 Nine Zero]]'', ''[[Hélas pour moi]]'', ''[[JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December|JLG]]'' or ''[[For Ever Mozart]]''. Besides these Eicher was also the head behind the music of [[Xavier Koller]]'s ''[[Journey of Hope (film)|Reise der Hoffnung]]'', [[Sandra Nettelbeck]]'s ''[[Mostly Martha (film)|Mostly Martha]]'' and the Oscar-nominated documentary ''[[War Photographer]]'' by [[Christian Frei]].<ref name="ecmrecords1"/> Additionally Godard has released a collection of short films on the label with [[Anne-Marie Miéville]] called ''Four Short Films'' (ECM 5001).<ref>Lake: Horizons Touched (2010), p. 5-12</ref>

Apart from her own work Greek composer [[Eleni Karaindrou]] wrote scores for stage and for movies, which include ''[[Ulysses' Gaze]]'' (1995), ''[[Eternity and a Day]]'' (1998) and ''[[The Dust of Time]]'' (1999), among others by filmmaker [[Theo Angelopoulos]] released on ECM.<ref>Lake: Horizons Touched (2010), p. 122-125</ref> The Swiss actor [[Bruno Ganz]], who has also worked with Angelopoulos, has recorded two spoken word-albums for the label: one in 1984 with poems by [[Friedrich Hölderlin]] (ECM New Series 1285) and one in 1999 called ''Wenn Wasser Wäre'' (ECM New Series 1723) with works of [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Giorgos Seferis]]. Another nameable release is the record ''[[Scardanelli (album)|Scardanelli]]'' (ECM 1761) with texts and music from [[Harald Bergmann]]'s film of the same name from 2000, which reflects the work of Hölderlin in his last years. In the title role, it features Austrian actor [[Walter Schmidinger]] who's reading the poems and texts on this record taken from the movie.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/1700/1761.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230359/http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/1700/1761.php |archive-date=2013-12-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In fall 2012, ECM released a record called ''Turmgedichte'' (ECM New Series 2285) by actor/voice actor/vocalist [[Christian Reiner]] also with poems by Hölderlin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/2200/2285.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221913/http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/2200/2285.php |archive-date=2013-12-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Furthermore, ECM has many projects and albums dedicated to people involved with motion pictures. For example, Italian piano player [[Stefano Battaglia]] pays tribute to the work of director [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] on his 2007 ''[[Re: Pasolini]]'' (ECM 1998-99). Its cover pictures a still from Pasolini's 1964 ''[[The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)|The Gospel According to St. Matthew]]''.<ref name="Kern 2010 p. 83-89">Kern: Der Blaue Klang (2010), p. 83-89</ref> In 2022 a recording of texts by the Italian film maker called ''Pier Paolo Pasolini: Land der Arbeit'' (ECM 2768) spoken in German by Reiner was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/pier-paolo-pasolini-land-der-arbeit-christian-reiner |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2023-11-13}}</ref> Polish jazz trumpeter [[Tomasz Stańko]] recorded in 1994 ''[[Matka Joanna]]'' (ECM 1544) as an homage to Polish film director [[Jerzy Kawalerowicz]]'s movie ''[[Mother Joan of the Angels|Matka Joanna od Aniołów]]'' (1961). Three years later on his 1997 ''[[Litania: Music of Krzysztof Komeda]]'' (ECM 1636) Stańko honors the work of another countryman and film composer [[Krzysztof Komeda]] who is widely known for the scores of several films by [[Roman Polanski]] but was also a jazz pianist. Polanski also contributed a preface for the booklet of ''Litania''. The album ''[[Dans la Nuit (Louis Sclavis album)|Dans la Nuit]]'' (ECM 1805) by French woodwind player [[Louis Sclavis]], who also was active as a film composer, is a new score for [[Charles Vanel]]'s 1930 silent movie ''[[Dans la nuit (film)]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1800/1805.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331191139/http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1800/1805.php |archive-date=2014-03-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 

The French pianist [[François Couturier]] dedicated a couple of his works to the Soviet/Russian director [[Andrei Tarkovsky]].<ref name="Kern 2010 p. 83-89" /> This includes pieces on his 2010 solo record ''Un jour si blanc'' (ECM 2103) and the albums ''Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky'' (ECM 1979) from 2006 as well as the ''Tarkovsky Quartet'' (ECM 2159) from 2011 - both with photographs and movie stills of Tarkovsky in the booklet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Background/Background_1979.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109001536/https://www.ecmrecords.com/Background/Background_1979.php/ |archive-date=2016-01-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other examples of works dedicated to the director are ''Arbos'' (ECM NewSeries 1325) by Estonian composer [[Arvo Pärt]], the piece ''Eight Hymns in memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky'' by composer [[Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer]] which can be found on [[Gidon Kremer]]'s 2010 ''[[Hymns and Prayers]]'' (ECM NewSeries 2161) or ''3rd Piece'' by Jan Garbarek on his solo record ''[[All Those Born with Wings]]'' (ECM 1324).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1300/1324.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322112900/http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1300/1324.php |archive-date=2014-03-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In Spring 2013 ECM released the record ''[[La Notte (album)|La notte]]'' by [[Ketil Bjørnstad]] which took its inspiration from Italian filmmaker [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]; its title and cover were taken from the 1961 [[La Notte|movie of the same name]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2300/2300.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215024631/http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2300/2300.php |archive-date=2015-02-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later that year an [[39 Steps (album)|album]] by [[John Abercrombie (guitarist)|John Abercrombie]] was released with four allusions towards [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]] movies including the name of the title track taken from ''[[The 39 Steps (1935 film)|39 Steps]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Background/ECM/2300/2334.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130915105731/http://www.ecmrecords.com/Background/ECM/2300/2334.php |archive-date=2013-09-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On her 2018 album ''Descansado: Songs for Films'' (ECM 2567) English singer [[Norma Winstone]] pays tribute to composers like [[Nino Rota]], [[Michel Legrand]], [[William Walton]], [[Bernard Herrmann]], and [[Ennio Morricone]] - all strongly connected to movies - by rearranging their pieces.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/descansado-songs-for-film-norma-winstone |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2023-11-13}}</ref>

The connection with motion pictures spans further and is reflected in the design of the booklet of ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' (ECM NewSeries 1700) by [[Jan Garbarek]] and the [[Hilliard Ensemble]]—the successor of its highly successful album ''[[Officium (album)|Officium]]'' (ECM 1525). It includes stills from ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' (1957) by Swedish director [[Ingmar Bergman]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Background/New_Series/1700/Bgr_1700.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219165657/http://ecmrecords.com/Background/New_Series/1700/Bgr_1700.php |archive-date=2015-02-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1986, director Jan Horne shot the 60-minute documentary ''Bare Stillheten'' about Eicher and the label in Munich, Oslo, and Tokyo for television with Garbarek, [[Terje Rypdal]], [[Jon Christensen (musician)|Jon Christensen]], [[Arild Andersen]], [[John Surman]], [[Eberhard Weber]], and others participating.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.jots.200017852/default.html |title=BARE STILLHETEN series Ep: ECM / Jan Horne [motion picture&#93;:Bibliographic Record Description: ''Performing Arts Encyclopedia'', Library of Congress |year=1986 |publisher=Lcweb2.loc.gov |access-date=2015-11-27}}</ref> There is also a documentary by Peter Guyer and Norbert Wiedmer called ''[[Sounds and Silence]]'' (2010) which portraits exemplary the daily work of [[Manfred Eicher]] with various musicians including Arvo Pärt, [[Nik Bärtsch]], [[Anouar Brahem]], [[Dino Saluzzi]] and [[Anja Lechner]], Jan Garbarek and [[Kim Kashkashian]] or [[Gianluigi Trovesi]] and [[Gianni Coscia]]. The soundtrack with tracks from the recording sessions seen in the movie was as well as the documentary also released on ECM called ''Music for the Film - Sounds and Silence'' (ECM 2250).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Background/5050.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008110810/http://www.ecmrecords.com/Background/5050.php |archive-date=2013-10-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A documentary about reed player [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] called ''Arrows Into Infinity'' (ECM 5052), directed by his wife Dorothy Darr together with Jeffery Morse, was released in July 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM_Cinema/5052_DVD.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312172330/http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM_Cinema/5052_DVD.php |archive-date=2015-03-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Another project from 2014 shows moving images by [[Prashant Bhargava]] with music by [[Vijay Iyer]] called ''[[Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi]]'' (ECM 5507).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM_Cinema/5507_DVD.php |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305104737/http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM_Cinema/5507_DVD.php |archive-date=2015-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2018 followed a portrait about Abercrombie called ''Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie'' (ECM 5053), filmed by [[Arno Oehri]] and [[Oliver Primus]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/open-land-meeting-john-abercrombie-a-film-by-arno-oehri-oliver-primus |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2023-11-13}}</ref>
Besides these movies, ECM has also released concert videos of Karaindrou, Marc Sinan, [[Keith Jarrett]] solo and with his ''Standards'' trio.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/Other/fes-14.php?cat=&we_start=0&lvredir=712&we_search=%2Bdvd |title=ECM Records |publisher=ECM Records |access-date=2015-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225201412/http://ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/Other/fes-14.php?cat=&we_start=0&lvredir=712&we_search=%2Bdvd |archive-date=2014-02-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>