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See You At Regis Debray is a film by enigmatic, boundary-challenging filmmaker CS Leigh, with a soundtrack by Japanese minimal electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda: his first work composed specifically for cinema. The film tells the story of the days Andreas Baader (one of the leaders of the German organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof group) spent in the Paris apartment of French intellectual R?gis Debray when he went on the run from the law in Germany in 1969. Debray himself was in prison in Bolivia at the time, having been convicted of, among other things, being a comrade of Che Guevera. For a brief moment, these vastly different paths met. The film is made of ten single takes of seven to ten minutes each, shot on 35mm by the great Greek cinematographer Yorgos Arvanitis, with whom Leigh worked on his 2005 film Process, which was featured in the Official Selection at the Berlin International Film Festival and in over 35 films festivals and released by Tartan in the UK and in many other territories. The film's soundtrack has been created by experimental sound artist Ryoji Ikeda. This complete film soundtrack is released by Syntax as a limited edition 2CD set. For CS Leigh, releasing the complete film soundtrack is another way of making his film available to the public -- existing at once as part of a related project, though at the same time as a different experience. In this form, it is a film to "hear," with minute, humming tones and barely-perceptible clicks juxtaposed against the jarring ring of a telephone, footsteps and other human noises. The end comes to a dramatic, static-y, roaring synth climax.