suspeso - why does this idea sound so great in theory and probably awful in practice?

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THE ENSEMBLE SOSPESO PERFORMS

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On March 14 and 15, Sospeso presents the American premieres of new music films by four composer-filmmaker teams: New York director Hal Hartley with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen; British director Nicolas Roeg with Adrian Utley of Portishead; the American animation team the Brothers Quay with Karlheinz Stockhausen; and legendary German director Werner Herzog with John Tavener.

Herzog and Taverner's Pilgrimage imagines a search for redemption and was filmed at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Sound casts the mysterious tones of Adrian Utley against the complex cinematic vision of Nicolas Roeg, featuring supermodel Claudia Schiffer. The New Math(s), by Hal Hartley and Louis Andriessen, is both wry and affecting. And In Absentia, the first new film by the Brothers Quay in six years, combines live action and animation with a new score by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Join Sospeso for what promises to be a stunning evening of multimedia art.

thursday and friday … 14 and 15 march 2002 …8:00 pm the miller theater at columbia university broadway at 116 … new york

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bros Quay thing could v good, though.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fun Fact: Hal Harley recorded music for most of his films as "Ned Rifle" & it is quite good.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this thread has been done before , after a fashion. i don't know why i've come over all bitter and everything all of a sudden, it's good that the auteur peeps are getting music more involved with their work, but... something just oozes self-satisfaction from this set-up. it's probably just the tone of the marketing-speak that's getting to me.

i think it's funny that they have to tell us who Claudia Schiffer is.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It does sound kinda smug and cross-arts backslappingish. But it also makes me wish I lived in New York so I could check it out. the only thing that sounds really dodgy (apart from Claudia Schiffer) is Tavener with Herzog. Herzog - great, Mexico - even better, Tavener - winsome spacey tasteful choirs contemporary music for people who don't like it yuk. Wierd, because Herzog usually uses great music in his films (and yes, I do include the Popol Vuh stuff in Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo).

― Ondes Martinot, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sounds like Aria only this might be sorta good. I like most of these directors (excepting Roeg post-1973) and the musicians are all at least interesting. Will probably be a failure, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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