Surprise Boogie
Synopsis
What would big band jazz music look like? How would what we hear - the swing, the rhythm, the ups and downs - be translated into images? Albert Pierru's film achieves this without every using a camera. Instead he painted and scratched directly onto the film-strip and creates a form of visual music moving between abstract shapes and forms and figurative images, such as a stickman playing piano, the string bass, or the trumpet.
Director: Albert Pierru
Country: France
Year: 1957
Production: Pierre Braunberger
Length: 5 minutes
Image/ Sound: colour/sound
Music: n.a.
Projection format: 16mm, 1,37:1
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