TABOO. EGON SCHIELE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Laura Masotto

• 1 Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant 02:43
• 2 Portrait of Wally 01:28
• 3 Houses in Winter 02:51
• 4 Transfiguration 03:01
• 5 The Hermits 03:29
• 6 The Embrace 04:32
• 7 Town on the Blue River 03:40
• 8 Young Mother 01:14
• 9 The Dead Island 02:18
• 10 View of Krumau 02:17
• 11 Prison Drawing 03:29
• 12 The Family 01:55
• 13 Girl with Red Hair 01:42
• 14 Tote Mutter 02:24
• 15 Tote Mutter Var I 02:26
• Total Runtime 39:29

Info for TABOO. EGON SCHIELE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The powerfully emotional soundtrack features original music composed and performed by violinist Laura Masotto

A journey to discover the artist’s rebellious youth, from the country where his mother was born to Vienna and Prague, to find the roots of an Art able to turn the rules of the times on aesthetics, morals and psychology upside down, still able to speak to us and disturb us today.

Through Schiele’s paintings, writings, and poetry, the film explores his troubled relationship with women, his obsession with time and death, and his raw, modern vision.

Drawing parallels with Kafka and the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this documentary is a cinematic journey into the mind and legacy of one of the most radical artists of the 20th century, who died at just 28 in 1918, leaving behind an explosive body of work made of hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings.

The film unfolds from the Egon Schiele Studio, the house with a garden where the artist lived with his companion and muse Wally Neuzil. Here, a young debut actress, Erika Carletto, becomes a poetic presence guiding the viewer through Schiele’s universe, her performance and singing evoking the charged atmospheres of Vienna and Prague at the turn of the century, brought to life through archival footage. An original score by Laura Masotto shapes the film’s emotional landscape.

The film also explores Schiele’s complex emotional bonds—his abandoned love Wally Neuzil, his distant marriage to Edith Harms, and a profound, still-emerging connection with his sister Gerti—revealing an artist driven by an unfulfilled longing to return to his origins.

Through interviews with leading international experts—including Jane Kallir, Ralph Gleis, and Kerstin Jesse—alongside art historians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts, the documentary weaves biography, interpretation, and cinematic imagination. Schiele’s story ends in 1918, with the collapse of an empire, but his vision continues to speak powerfully to our present, confronting us with the fragile and unresolved essence of being human.

Laura Masotto, violin

Laura Masotto
is a violinist and composer who blends the depth of classical strings with refined electronic experimentation. A graduate of the Conservatory of Verona, she began playing the violin at the age of five; by fifteen, she was moving between chamber music and post-rock bands, leading to the launch of her solo project in 2019.

She has released Fireflies (2019, Lady Blunt Records) for solo violin and looper; Here and Now (2020, Flipper Music), composed during an artist residency at Fabra i Coats in Barcelona; WE (2021, 7K!), marking the introduction of synthesizers; and The Spirit of Things (2024, 7K!), which received international acclaim and was reviewed by The Wire and Electronic Sound. The album was followed by a European tour across the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and Italy, with concerts at venues such as Silent Green in Berlin and TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, as well as appearances at festivals including Eurosonic, Haldern Pop, Ypsigrock, Andersen, and Hemmersdorf. She is currently working on her new album Notturno, scheduled for release in 2026.

In 2022, she released two tracks with Deutsche Grammophon: “Sol Levante” for Mari Samuelsen’s album Lys, and a rework of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Shéhérazade” for the Summer Tales collection.

Masotto’s music has gained wide international recognition: her track “Atoms,” from WE, was selected as the official soundtrack for the Dior Fall–Winter 2025–26 campaign. Her work has also been featured in contexts ranging from the Jil Sander fashion show within Moncler’s The City of Genius project, presented at Shanghai Fashion Week in 2024 (which used her track “Lucciola”), to the Emmy Award–winning Netflix series Baby Reindeer, which includes “Sol Levante.” She has composed original music for film and contemporary dance, including the documentary Biki, directed by Michele Mally. For the same director, she composed in 2025 the soundtrack for the documentary Tabù, Egon Schiele, to be released in early 2026 on Sky Arte. She has also recorded three film scores composed by Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari: for the Rai Cinema movie Gli Asteroidi; for 100 Preludi by Alessandra Pescetta, featuring the voice of Lisa Gerrard; and for La seconda vita by Vito Palmieri, featuring Cristina Donà. Two of her tracks, “La danza di Lisa” and “Mirage,” are included in the soundtrack of Alberto Rizzi’s film Squali, premiered at Alice nella Città 2024 as part of the Rome Film Festival.

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