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  • A Necessary Music (2008)
  • Short | 20 min | Documentary, Short
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A Necessary Music (2008)
Short | 20 min | Documentary, Short
A collaboration between artist Beatrice Gibson and composer Alex Waterman, A Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film ...See moreA collaboration between artist Beatrice Gibson and composer Alex Waterman, A Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it. Treating the medium of film as both a musical proposition and a proposal for collective production, A Necessary Music employs the resident of New York's Roosevelt Island as its authors and actors, gathering together texts written by them and using them to construct a script for the film. Framed by a fictional narration taken from Adolfo Bioy Casares' 1941 science fiction novel 'The invention of Morel', the film self-consciously dissolves from attempted realism to imagined narrative; what begins as a enthnographic study becomes instead an imagined fiction and an investigation into the mechanics of representation itself. Written by anonymous See less
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Director
Beatrice Gibson
Composer
Alex Waterman
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Updated Nov 7, 2008
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Nov 7, 2008 (Denmark)
Awards
1 win & 2 nominations

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