Raphaël Elig

In September 2020, at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival, Ibrahim won prizes including that for best music. "The film music that we have decided to reward takes the place it should take, it sublimates without ever caricaturing. We were very touched by this sensitive and naive piano matched to the emotions of adolescence." Prizes awarded on stage by singer Clara Luciani on behalf of the 2020 Festival Jury. In November 2021 the film Ibrahim won the First Feature Award at COLCOA the French Film Festival in Los Angeles.

In 2019, he began recording his album Préludes - Avant le Jeu. For this piano project he finds simplicity and minimalism in the composition of his melodies. He inscribes this work in the tradition of piano pieces such as Schumann's Children's Scenes, Giya Kancheli's 33 miniatures, Chick Corea's Children Songs, "I wrote these pieces to express the simplicity as beauty, as represented in the mind of a child. "

It is this personal work around childhood and transmission that allows the meeting with the director Samir Guesmi at the end of 2019. He composes and performs the music for his feature film Ibrahim produced by Why Not Productions.

And in 2013, he composed the music for Rue Mandar, an Idit Cebula's film.

In 2008, he composed the music in collaboration with Eric Wenger for Marc Caro's (Delicatessen and La Cité des enfants perdus) first solo feature, Dante 01.

In 2003 he explored video and new technologies for a while to experiment with new artistic forms.

His professional career began as a composer, author and performer at EMI Group where he released two records in the early 1990s (J'me Fais du Bien and Les Garçons Aiment les Filles). In parallel he writes music for the theatre (Patrick Timsit, Clémentine Célarié, Sophia Aram, for the TV (Chic, Square Artist on Arte and Cash Investigation, Thalassa on France TV) and also composes advertising music for prestigious brands (Cartier, Vuitton, Air France, etc.).