directed by Luke Fowler, [UK] 2006, 45 min.
> SAT 27/01 >
MAO Lounge > 21:00
A film about english composer and marxist Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra that Cardew formed back in 1968 from his „experimental music“ class: A fluid collective of students, office employees, amateur musicians and professional composers who explore the boundaries of group improvisation and social engineering. Fowler's film illuminates the internal contradictions and struggles of the Scratch Orchestra through first person interviews, recent and archival footage and predominantly unreleased music, and skillfully expands the narration of the documentary through techniques of experimental film.
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