Stop for Bud

Stop for Bud (1963)

Released: 1963-12-17 Duration: 12min
Genres: Documentary Music
Rating 6.6

Overview

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

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Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language da
Popularity 0.535

Directed By

Ole John

Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Jørgen Leth

Crew

Director
Ole John
Director
Jørgen Leth
Cinematography
Ole John
Writer
Ole John
Producer
Ole John
Music
Bud Powell

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Bud Powell
Bud Powell

Himself - Jazz Pianist

Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon

Narrator (voice)

Jørn Elniff
Jørn Elniff

Himself

Max Brüel
Max Brüel

Himself

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