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Stop for Bud

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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."

Directed byOle John, Jørgen Leth, Jens Jørgen Thorsen

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 12m
Language
DA
Released
December 17, 1963

Featuring

Cast & crew

5 credited
Starring

Bud Powell

Himself - Jazz Pianist

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Narrator (voice)

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Himself

Jørn Elniff

Himself

Max Brüel

Himself

Creative team
Directed by
Ole John
Ole John
Jørgen Leth
Jørgen Leth
Written by
Ole John
Ole John
Produced by
Ole John
Ole John

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