Music for Black Pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to influential jazz players such as Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Midori Takada and many others: How does it feel to play, and what does it mean to listen? What is it like to be a human being and spending your whole life trying to express something through sounds? The characters wake up, rehearse, record, perform and talk about music. In some moments they are on the edge, the edge of existence, constantly challenging themselves. They listen. They devote themselves to finding a space to create a connection to something bigger than themselves. Something that will outlast all of us.
Inside Scofield is a feature documentary about master guitarist and touring musician John Scofield.
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Motian In Motion is a documentary film about iconic jazz drummer Paul Motian, with rare footage of Paul playing and recording at the world renowned Village Vanguard, Birdland and other venues.
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a serene and endearing cat-cam video, made during lockdown and scored by Bill Frisell.
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Truth or Consequences is a speculative documentary about time and how we weave the past into the present and our possible future. Set in the small desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, the film takes place in the shadow of a nearby Spaceport and the commercial exploration of space. Through the lives of the people in town and a filmmaker from the future, the film explores progress, echoes of history, and how we each navigate a sense of loss, within ourselves and within a changing world.
This documentary focuses on the artistry of director Bill Morrison, who leverages decaying film stock from years past to tell new stories that are relevant to today's audiences. The decaying film lends brilliant visuals which add to Morrison's concept of storytelling.
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An intimate, behind-the-music portrait of one of the most unassuming yet influential creative artists of our time, guitarist Bill Frisell. Frisell said of the film, “It’s like the inside of my brain!”
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Наводнение 1927 на реке Миссисипи было самым разрушительным речным наводнением в американской истории. Весной 1927 года река прорвалась из своих берегов в 145 местах и затопила 70,0 тыс. кв. км территории на глубину до 10 м. Часть его непреходящего наследия был массовый исход потерявших земли издольщиков. В музыкальном смысле, Великое переселение чернокожих жителей сельского Юга в северные города явило "блюз Дельты" электрифицированным и переосмысленным, как "Чикаго блюз", "ритм и блюз" и "рок-н-ролл". Минимально используя текст и обходясь без разговорных диалогов, кинорежиссёр Билл Моррисон и композитор-гитарист Билл Фризелл создали мощную портретную картину плодотворнейшего момента в американской истории, через коллекцию немых изображений, соответствующих жгучему оригинальному саундтреку.
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A lonely man's relationship to his doppelganger leads to plagiarism.
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A distilled, up-to-the-minute portrait of our agitated nation, its politics, its economics, its delusions and its dreams. Laurie Anderson's tone is less outraged than elegiac, mourning for lives lost, ideals misplaced. The music is dramatically stripped down to a handful of players, centered around Anderson's haunting violin and voice, frequent Bill Frisell band-mate Eyvind Kang's viola and Peter Scherer's keyboards.
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A rough but beautiful documentary film about the crisis of a man in his forties and his desire for a better life; its a story of parenthood, alcohol, Finnish man and his desire for love. It is also an unusually intimate depiction of the relationship between the father and his son. Despite the seriousness of the topic the film includes black humor and situational comedy
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Рэй Доукс условно-досрочно освободился из заключения и всего лишь хотел отсидеться в тиши. Но не тут-то было: приехав домой, Рэй сталкивается с местным жадиной-девелопером Сони Стэнтоном, который вынуждает ковбоев продавать свои земли. С помощью молодой симпатичной жокейши и техасского ковбоя, лучшие годы которого позади, Рэй разрабатывает план, как остановить Стэнтона и защитить земляков.
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Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust.
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Based on the story of Howard Walls, A clerk at the Library of Congress who saved a collection of early paper reel films from the incinerator, director Bill Morrison embellishes the tale a bit in this inspired short work. Here, the vision of a woman in an early porno film has been engrained in the mind of a man working at the Library of Congress and his search for the film of her has an unexpected consequence, as he saves a collection of historically significant films from being destroyed.
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The short film was made from material shot for a Levi’s commercial on which Gus Van Sant was given complete freedom. Van Sant delivered the ad, and separately made his own short film; one that feels complete in and unto itself.
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In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
