Nuances op. 56 no. 3 by Alexander Scriabin

PUBLISHING

Naked Blue

Release in 2022, the film Naked Blue documents the improvisation of 13-year-old dancer Oumy Bruni Garrel, following her choreographed movements through a studio set painted an underwater blue as she dances in front of mirrors and salutes an imaginary audience. Under the blazing lights and swelling music, her performance recalls a screen test or dance film but lush with magnetism, passion, and quiet sensitivity.

This new publication brings together the full orchestral score of Naked Blue, composed by Devonté Hynes, and stills from the film directed by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie. It is published on the occasion of the presentation of Naked Blue at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad on August 2, 2026.

Published in October 2026 Printed in Italy 1,000 copies Softcover, stapled, 56 pages 22 × 28,5 cm, 8 11/6 × 11 1/4 in. English ISBN: 978-2-918685-17-3 Price: €25 + shipping costs

Published with the support of Liquid Music, Monteverde Productions and the Menuhin Festival.

Naked Blue, a film by Mati Diop & Manon Lutanie. Music By Devonté Hynes. 2022. USA. 17 min.

Naked Blue, a film by Mati Diop & Manon Lutanie. Music By Devonté Hynes. 2022. USA. 17 min.

Devonté Hynes

Devonté Hynes is a British musician and composer. After performing with the punk band Test Icicles and recording two albums as Lightspeed Champion, he has released five critically acclaimed albums as Blood Orange. He has collaborated with artists including Mariah Carey, A$AP Rocky, Solange, and Paul McCartney, and composed scores for films and television series such as Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener and Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are. Hynes’s symphonic and instrumental music has been commissioned and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, among others. His cello concerto Origin, piano concerto Happenings, and symphony Naked Blue, have been featured in Selected Classical Works programs at venues including the Sydney Opera House, Barbican Centre, and Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Mati Diop

Mati Diop is a Franco-Senegalese filmmaker born in Paris in 1982. With her first feature film Atlantics (2019), awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by Dahomey (2024), which received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, she has emerged as one of the major voices in international auteur cinema and in a new wave of contemporary African and diasporic filmmaking. By founding the Dakar-based production company Fanta Sy, she continues to expand her artistic engagement on the African continent.

Manon Lutanie

Manon Lutanie (b. 1987) is an independent filmmaker and publisher based in Paris. Her short films Liberian Boy (2015) and Naked Blue (2022), co-directed with Mati Diop, as well as Untitled (2024) have been screened at institutions and festivals including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, e-flux, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Renaissance Society, CAP UCLA, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. She is the founder of the independent press Éditions Lutanie. From 2019 through the early 2020s, she was an active member of P.A.I.N., a non-profit founded by Nan Goldin to address the overdose epidemic and the stigma of addiction.