Beatrice Gibson's first feature-length film, At Night, world-premieres on Saturday, August 8, in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the 79th Locarno Film Festival — and its soundtrack comes from Elvin Brandhi, not Brian Eno, despite what many listings have suggested (The Hollywood Reporter).

Brandhi is the pseudonym of Freya Edmondes, an improvising voice and sound artist born in Wales. Her music is built from field recordings, her own voice, tape, vinyl and instruments, and she performs across several collaborations — the father-daughter duo Yeah You, Pollution Opera with Nadah El Shazly, the duo Avil Spleen with Joseph Jadam, the band PFL with Peter Kutin and Lukas König, and the project Bahk with Daniel Blumberg (The Hollywood Reporter).

At Night is Brandhi's first-ever feature film soundtrack. She described the work herself, confirming that this marks her debut scoring a full-length film (The Hollywood Reporter).

Gibson, born in 1978 and based in London, is an artist and filmmaker whose work is often improvised, exploring the pull between chaos and control. At Night fits that mould. It is an experimental and autofictional film — a blend of personal narrative and fiction — that interweaves the nightly sights and sounds of Paris with the stories and conversations of six women. The film follows those women traversing the anxiety of the city after dark, and involves a filmmaker struggling to understand the film she is making (The Hollywood Reporter; Locarno Film Festival).

The principal cast includes Diocouda Diaoune, Katia Belo Cardosa, Sophie Robinson, Amy Gwatkin and Gibson herself. Behind the camera, the credits stack up with purpose: cinematography by Ben Rivers, editing by Liyo Gong, sound by Andy Neil, and costume design by Holly Rebecca of echo (The Hollywood Reporter; British Council Film; Instagram).

The film runs 87 minutes, presented in DCP 2K and colour, with dialogue in English, French, Tibetan and Bambara — a striking linguistic spread for a Paris-set feature. It is a United Kingdom and France co-production, produced by Scott O'Donnell of Somesuch, Denna Cartamkhoob and Gibson, with executive producers including Eva Yates and Alice Ojha. BBC Film backs the project (Screen Daily; Cineuropa; Locarno Film Festival).

At Locarno, At Night screens in the Filmmakers of the Present competition — the festival's strand dedicated to emerging directors. It is also eligible for the Swatch First Feature Award, which recognises debut features across the festival's sections, and is considered for the Pardo for Change award (Locarno Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival). Giona A. Nazzaro serves as the festival's artistic director (The Hollywood Reporter).

What makes the soundtrack story worth untangling is the name confusion itself. A sound artist operating under a pseudonym, making her first foray into film scoring, is the kind of detail that tends to get lost in festival catalogue listings — and when the wrong name surfaces, it travels fast. Brandhi's work on At Night is a collision of her field-recording practice with Gibson's improvisational approach to filmmaking. Two artists who build their work from what they find in the moment, now sharing a credit on the same 87-minute frame.