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Helicopter String Quartet
19961h 21m★ 6.0DocumentaryMusic
Overview
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.
Director
- Frank Scheffer
Writers
- Frank Scheffer
Producers
- Frank Scheffer
- Ton Van Der Lee
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Top cast
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Irvine Arditti
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Graeme Jennings
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Garth Knox
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Rohan de Saram
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