Peter Brötzmann

The world-class musical life of Budapest gave us the opportunity to get in conversation with the key members of the contemporary jazz scene. Some names of the interviewees without being exhaustive: Courtney Pine, Mats Gustaffsson, Matthew Shipp, Peter Brötzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love, Soil & Pimp Sessions, Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee, Conrad Bauer, Trevor Watts.

A concert film of Peter Brötzmann's show on the 27th of January 2019.

How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and shame possessed the heart of the young Germans. They needed to invent, scream, regain a lost brotherhood. Overcome this silence! That’s how some young German, British, Dutch, Belgian… musicians made Europe exist long before Maastrich and have kept on cherishing, imperturbably, their freedom! They are no longer twenty-year-olds, but others have followed. They set themselves one constraint: reinvent everything every time. A way to take the very instant into account, to let the unexpected in, to match to the world.

Inside Out In The Open is an hour-long documentary about a form of jazz, popularly known as free jazz. The film is an exploration of that music through the voices and performances of over twenty such musicians, from those who were its first generation to younger musicians joining the tradition.

Les Instants Chavirés, situés à Montreuil, sont depuis 1991 un lieu de diffusion pensé comme un laboratoire des musiques improvisées, expérimentales, bruitistes. Après avoir ouvert en tant que salle de jazz contemporain, Les Instants Chavirés s’ouvrent au rock avant-gardiste au milieu des années 90. Depuis la programmation s'est majoritairement orientée vers le rock noise, l'électronique, le bruit… Ce film propose une plongée jubilatoire dans les archives de ce lieu utopique et toujours vaillant, régulièrement électrisé par des performances qui ont toujours fait la part belle aux expérimentations les plus libres.

Short portrait of Jonas Mekas by filmmaker and veteran Jonas chronicler, Peter Sempel.