Jean-Francois Charles

An Alphabet for Grant Wood is the film version of a song originally featured in my opera Grant Wood in Paris . This film will be screened at three festivals in Iowa in October. I hope to see you there! Sioux City Film Festival I'll be in Sioux City on Saturday, October 3 for the Iowa premiere of the film. An Alphabet for Grant Wood will be shown at 10 am, as part of the MidWest category of the Sioux City International Film Festival . Refocus Film Festival The film is part of the Short Film selection of Refocus , a film festival dedicated to adaptations. Screenings: Friday, October 23, Teen Screen special event, 1 pm Friday, October 23, 4 pm Saturday, October 24, 12 pm Sunday, October 25, 3:10 pm More information: Monograph Shorts 2026 @ Refocus Film Festival Cedar River Film Festival At the Cedar River Film Festival in Cedar Falls, the film will be shown late on October 31, in the Unexpected Terror program!

On April 16, 2026, we performed with Ramin Roshandel (the Jamshid Jam duet) new music to an excerpt from Lotte Reiniger 's film The Adventures of Prince Achmed . Here is the live recording: This performance was a first step towards the creation of a complete soundtrack for the 65-minute movie as a trio (Ramin Roshandel, Nicolas Sidoroff, and myself). One of the next steps consisted in the creation of a kind of storyboard for the movie: To be continued...

Tonight at 5:30pm, Ramin Roshandel and I, i.e. the Jamshid Jam duet, are playing new music to an excerpt of Lotte Reiniger 's wonderful movie The Adventures of Prince Achmed , at the invitation of film and media historian Michael Cowan and the organisers. Come if you are available! If not, stay tuned: we are working on more music for this film! To be continued...