Concert film
A concert film is a film that depicts musical events. A concert film may have predominantly documentary character, but its about Michael Wadleighs film about the Woodstock Festival, or by the active staging of the concert situation a medial extension of the artistic presentation, Jonathan Demme about Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense.
History
The close connection of the popular music industry, the film became established in the 1960s, when musicians such as Elvis Presley and The Beatles appeared in successful films. In order to keep connection to youth culture, studied the film industry for ways successfully tested concepts such as the link between film images and rock music in Easy Rider (1969 ) put for the mass market and to create synergies between the cinema and the record market.
Caused a sensation in the concert film Gimme Shelter by David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin from 1971, which in some ways the end of the hippie movement documented: During the filmed Altamont concert of the Rolling Stones an African American was in front of the musicians of the used as a folder Hells Angels stabbed after he pulled a gun. Even Martin Scorsese's The Band (1978 ) is a farewell to the golden years of rock music and presents the farewell concert of The Band in 1976 with musical guests like Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Neil Young.
After the highly artificial staged concert films of the 1980s such as Stop Making Sense (1984 ), Home of the Brave ( directed by and starring Laurie Anderson, 1985) or Big Time ( Chris Blum with Tom Waits, 1988) moved the car generic view of the filmmakers regarding the filmed subjects in the foreground. So Jim Jarmusch portrayed in Year of the Horse (1997) the musician Neil Young and Wim Wenders Buena Vista Social Club (1999), the Cuban musician correspondingly very subjective and their work context.
The possibilities of the medium to create the DVD concert film in the early 21st century, new mechanisms of action: the unity of time and space in the concert film opened the recipient possibilities, the film consumer to interactively control, such as the selection of different camera angles.
Motives and productions
Wadleighs Woodstock film ( 1970) and Monterey Pop (DA Pennebaker and Richard Leacock, 1967/1968 ) about the Monterey Pop Festival are examples of predominantly based on documentary aspects rotated concert films. While Wadleigh great emphasis put on the myriad details of the concert organization and the audience reactions and presented the visuselle wealth by Split Screen, Pennebaker and Leacock took with means of Direct Cinema, the embossed by the spirit of the hippie movement atmosphere among the concert-goers exactly.
A first attempt to enter the genre of the rock concert film an aesthetic self embossing, Scorsese took in The Band (1978). He focused on the work of musicians and expressed their individuality through directorial differences in their appearance from presentation. Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense leads this path to self-dramatization of the musicians on and connects the music performance with stage sets and images, costumes, lighting effects and cinematic means for a Gesamtkunstwerk. The concert film is for the block in an inter-media strategy to integrate arts such as painting, fashion, photography, literature and theater in their own musical context.
- Film genre