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Helicopter String Quartet (1996)
Directed by Frank Scheffer
Documentary, Music · 1h 21m
One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in the clouds, with each of a quartet’s members tucked inside his own chopper, communicating through headsets, stringing away in sync to the rotor-blade motors. He immediately set forth to make that dream a reality. In 1995, Dutch film director Scheffer followed Stockhausen in the days leading up to the premiere performance of his Helicopter String Quartet in Amsterdam. The resulting film offers a rare glimpse of Stockhausen as he patiently dictates every agonizingly detailed measure to the Arditti Quartet.
Cast
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Crew
- Director
- Frank Scheffer
- Writer
- Frank Scheffer
- Director of Photography
- René van der Eijk, Roelf-Jan Wentholt, Joost van Gelder
- Editor
- Jan Wouter van Reijen
- Producer
- Frank Scheffer, Ton Van Der Lee
Details
- Original title
- Helikopter Streichquartett
- Release date
- 1996-10-17
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, English
- Countries
- Netherlands
- Production
- Allegri Film