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Step Across the Border (1990)
90 min | Documentary, Music

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Step Across the Border (1990)

90 min | Documentary, Music

In Step Across the Border two forms of artistic expression - improvised music and cinema direct - are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into ...See moreIn Step Across the Border two forms of artistic expression - improvised music and cinema direct - are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music, our work, too, was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night, responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do, for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling. It was all very instinctive... Written by rene-de-jager See less

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Name	Known for
Jonas Mekas Butterfly Wing Butterfly Wing See fewer	The Brig (1964)
Julia Judge Koan vom Klang einer Hand Koan vom Klang einer Hand See fewer	Step Across the Border (1990)
John Spacely Koan vom Klang einer Hand Koan vom Klang einer Hand See fewer	Sid and Nancy (1986)
Tom Walker Koan vom Klang einer Hand Koan vom Klang einer Hand See fewer	Step Across the Border (1990)
Ted Milton Television Dancer Television Dancer See fewer	So It Goes (1976)
Robert Frank Old Man in Train Old Man in Train See fewer	UHF (1989)
Fred Frith Self Self See fewer	Before Sunrise (1995)

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