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Step Across The Border

Germany / Switzerland, 1990
FILM, Documentary, 87 min.

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directed by
Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel
Status
In distribution

In this film two forms of artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music, our work, too, was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night, responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do, for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling. It was all very instinctive.

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World Premiere
1990
Original Version
English (german subtitles),  b/w, 35mm, 87 min.
Production
Cine Nomad, Balzli & Fahrer GmbH
Producer
directed by
Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel
Cinemato­graphy
Oscar Salgado
Editing
Gisela Castronari, Vera Burnus
Music
Fred Frith
Location Sound Mix
Jean Vapeur

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Balzli & Fahrer GmbH , Cine Nomad

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Switzerland
Look Now! Distribution
Release date: tba

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