Mica Levi

Mica Levi

Birth : 1987-02-01, Surrey, England

History

Mica Levi (/ˈmiːkə ˈliːvi/; born February 1987), known by their stage name Micachu, is an English singer, songwriter, composer and producer. They are classically trained and since 2008 has released experimental pop music with their band Micachu and the Shapes, including their critically praised debut album Jewellery in 2009. In 2014, Levi branched out into film composing, creating the score for the Jonathan Glazer film Under the Skin. Their work was widely praised and Levi received a European Film Award for Best Composer and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music nomination. Their score for Pablo Larraín's Jackie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.

Profile

Mica Levi
Mica Levi

Movies

The Zone of Interest
Original Music Composer
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Mud
Original Music Composer
Strasbourg 1518
Original Music Composer
Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over five hundred years ago, this film is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today.
Zola
Original Music Composer
A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.
The Fall
Music
A mob's punishment of a lone man proves cruel and unusual in this nightmarish short film.
Sirens
Music
Goldin’s first work made up solely of found-footage video, Sirens assembles clips from movies by the likes of Kenneth Anger, Lynne Ramsay, Michelangelo Antonioni, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Jack Smith, as well as wild documentary footage from the Manson family. Sirens was inspired by Donyale Luna, the first Black supermodel, who overdosed at the age of 33.
Monos
Original Music Composer
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
Music
Following the artist Phil Collins' search for a decommissioned statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels in eastern Ukraine, and documenting its journey and arrival to a homecoming party in Manchester.
The Colour of Chips
Sound
Francesca Levi transposed Parajanov’s classic The Colour of Pomegranates to the no less exotic seaside resort of Blackpool in the UK. Her sister, film composer Mica Levi (Jackie, Under the Skin) delivered the musical equivalent for this kaleidoscopic video. Originally conceived as a part of the series ‘The Unfilmables’.
INNA
Music Producer
Hypnagogic Opera written/directed by Dean Blunt and Soundtracked by Mica Levi. Performed in October 2017 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Marjorie Prime
Original Music Composer
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
Jackie
Original Music Composer
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Delete Beach
Original Music Composer
Delete Beach is a futuristic tale set in the near future, in which a schoolgirl joins an anti-capitalist resistance group in a society in which carbon-based energy is illegal. Made in collaboration with Studio 4°C, one of Japan’s leading animation studios.
Experimenter
Thanks
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Under the Skin
Original Music Composer
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.