A documentary about rock’n’roll. Making, buying, selling. Radio, jukebox, scoptione, pinball, poolhall. Canned Heat, City Lights, Seeds of Time, LA Tymes. Llyn Foulkes, Charlie Watts, Chris & Craig, Duke of Earl. Seeburg, Wurlitzer. Standing, walking, jumping, singing, dancing, gesturing, surfing. […] Documentary material organized by a predetermined structure. A sequence of picture-sound equations with randomly chosen terms. Vertically. — —— is completely structured; horizontally it is completely random. A pastiche of cinematography, a parody of montage. (Thom Andersen)
Also in this combined programme
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Standard Gauge
A reservoir of forgotten film material forms a metaphorical biography of the film history and a partial autobiography of Fisher himself. -
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Narrative films depend on inserts, but at the same time they are utterly marginal. ‘Parenthesis’ is a Greek word that means the act of inserting. -
Castle Films – Movies Greatest Headlines
A vintage newsreel that was for home viewing and covered World War II events and Bikini Atoll atomic testing.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1967
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
