This 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 September 2026
Printed in Italy
1,000 copies
Softcover, 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.
Cover: Oumy Bruni Garrel, 2022. All rights reserved.
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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 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 (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.