Step Across The Border
Germany / Switzerland, 1990
FILM,
Documentary,
87 min.
- 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.
credits
- 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
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Balzli & Fahrer GmbH , Cine Nomad
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Look Now! Distribution
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Amiens, 36e Festival International du Film d'Amiens
11.11.2016 - 19.11.2016 -
Warsaw, 10th Planete + Doc Film Festival Warsaw
10.05.2013 - 19.05.2013 -
Munich, 28. DOK.fest Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München
08.05.2013 - 15.05.2013 -
Munich, 20. Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München
06.05.2005 - 14.05.2005 -
Internationales Festival für Musik und Film
03.03.1995 - 12.03.1995