Tag: DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Alison Chen & Joseph Bertolozzi

Here with Alison Chen of the Fei Tian College in Middletown, NY after their Spring Gala Performance. She is an illuminatingly sensitive chorographer; her work “Fleeting Moments of Youth” featuring special guest Yungyung Tsuai and company was very moving, and for me a highlight of the program. We met last year when she chorographed the opening set of the Bridge… Read more →

Bridge Music Dance Project MOVIE PREMIERE

One summer night 212 feet above the Hudson River, dozens of dancers convened to celebrate the connecting force of bridges to their communities. Come see the Bridge Music Dance Project with Karnatic dance juxtaposed alongside hip-hop, Soca, tap, post-modern, ballet, world, Latin fusion, and more, as each dance interprets a movement of Joseph Bertolozzi’s “Bridge Music” an opus using only… Read more →

BEVERLY HILLS POSTER BOY

What can I say, I’m a poster boy in Beverly Hills for the Infinity Film Festival, and I didn’t even have to go on a diet! Thank you #BridgeMusic! The Bridge Music documentary by filmmaker Andrew Porter screens at the Infinity Film Festival on Nov 1st at 4:30pm in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA. Last year… Read more →

BRIDGE MUSIC DOCUMENTARY PLAYS L.A.

The Bridge Music documentary by filmmaker Andrew Porter screens at the Infinity Film Festival on Nov 1st at 4:30pm in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA. Last year the film was a Staff Pick and won the Audience Award at the 2017 Music Shorts Film Festival. The doc has screened at film festivals in San Diego, Detroit, Kingston, Beacon and New… Read more →

NEW DOCUMENTARY ON BRIDGE MUSIC

Film maker Andrew Porter‘s new documentary Bridge Music looks at Joseph Bertolozzi’s trailblazing musical work on New York’s Mid Hudson Bridge. Here’s a few images from our interviews for the film. and here’s a link to the trailer. It is starting to make the rounds of film festivals and its first public screening will be 7pm, Friday June 17th, 2016 at the Arts Society of Kingston… Read more →

SOUNDHUNTERS TAKE THE NETHERLANDS!

‪#‎SOUNDHUNTERS‬ airs at the Amsterdam Dance Event festival Thurs (tomorrow) & Fri! ‪#‎BridgeMusic‬ & ‪#‎TowerMusic‬ figure prominently in the documentary alongside the work of ‪#‎JeanMichelJarre‬ and others. BerylKoltz directs and Marc Parodi & Alice Chiaverini star. NPO (Netherlands Public Broadcasting) is also airing the documentary Friday night. Here is a nice review of the film from its original airing in September, 2015 http://television.telerama.fr/tele/programmes-tv/soundhunters,96527328.php Read more →

Award-winning SOUNDHUNTERS premieres Sept 19, ARTE Channel

This Saturday September 19 at 11:10pm on the ARTE Channel (France & Germany), Beryl Koltz’s new film SOUNDHUNTERS premieres. The film presents composers such as Jean-Michel Jarre and Joseph Bertolozzi in their search for music from the environment around them. A sneak peak at Bertolozzi working on Tower Music from the Eiffel Tower, as well as his Bridge Music from New York… Read more →

BRIDGE/TOWER MUSIC DOCUMENTARY VIEWING TONITE

The first viewing of NOISEMAKERS, a documentary about composers working in experimental forms will be tonite, Thursday May 14 at 7pm on the State University of NY at New Paltz campus in Lecture Center 102. The showing is free and open to the public. Directed by Kevin O’Connor it features a segment on both Bridge Music and Tower Music. I personally cannot attend… Read more →