Le songe du luthier

After buying an exceptional maple lot, Swiss instrument maker Pierre Louis made a promise to a colleague from his former school. With the wood from this lot, which came from a single tree, he would make four instruments for a string quartet: two violins, a cello and a viola. Inside his studio, the camera of director Christophe Ferrux follows his gestures, captures the sounds and subtle choreography of a skilled craftsman at work. Over the seasons, between the silence of the workshop and the music of Aurèle Louis, the instruments come to life. A meditative portrait of this remarkable craftsman, which not only chronicles the birth of these four instruments from the same family, but records their very first notes together, as performed by the Casals Quartet.