Stop for Bud

Stop for Bud

1963
12m
6.6

6.6/10

7 votes • View on IMDb
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Overview

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

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Production Information

Production Countries
Denmark
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

jazz portrait short film

Quick Facts

Original Title Stopforbud
Release Date December 17, 1963
Status Released
Language DA
IMDb ID tt0316685

Cast

Bud Powell
Bud Powell

Himself - Jazz Pianist

Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon

Narrator (voice)

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Himself

Jørn Elniff
Jørn Elniff

Himself

Max Brüel
Max Brüel

Himself

Key Crew

Ole John
Director
Jens Jørgen Thorsen
Director
Jørgen Leth
Director
Ole John
Writer
Ole John
Producer