Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Documentary > Step Across the Border
Step Across the Border is a Allemand film of genre Documentary directed by Nicolas Humbert released in USA on 1 january 1990 with Fred Frith

Step Across the Border (1990)

Step Across the Border
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 1 january 1990
Length 1h30
Directed by ,    
OriginGerman
Genres Documentary,    Musical
Rating79% 3.958573.958573.958573.958573.95857

Step Across the Border is a 1990 avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. It was written and directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel and released in Germany and Switzerland. The film was screened in cinemas in North America, South America, Europe and Japan, and on television in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. It was also released on VHS by RecRec Music (Switzerland) in 1990, and was later released on DVD by Winter & Winter (Germany) in 2003.

Shot in black and white, the 35mm documentary was filmed between 1988 and 1990 in Japan, Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States and Switzerland, and shows Frith rehearsing, performing, giving interviews and relaxing. Other musicians featured include René Lussier, Iva Bittová, Tom Cora, Tim Hodgkinson, Bob Ostertag and John Zorn.

The film won "Best Documentary" at the European Film Awards in 1990. A companion soundtrack album, Step Across the Border was also released by RecRec Music in 1990.

Synopsis

Un film documentaire d'avant-garde sur le guitariste, compositeur et improvisateur anglais Fred Frith.

Actors

Fred Frith

(Self)Iva Bittová

(Self)John Spacely / Gringo

(Koan vom Klang einer Hand)Jean Derome
John Zorn

(Self)
And :
Jonas Mekas
Robert Frank
Trailer of Step Across the Border

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Step Across the Border

There are 8 films with the same actors, 2 films with the same director, 14629 with the same cinematographic genres (including 701 with exactly the same 2 genres than Step Across the Border), 8313 films with the same themes (including 836 films with the same 4 themes than Step Across the Border), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Step Across the Border, you will probably like those similar films :
Touch the Sound
Touch the Sound (2004)
, 1h39
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Actors Fred Frith
Rating71% 3.587833.587833.587833.587833.58783
"Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face."
A Family Underground
A Family Underground (2009)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Violent J, Ice-T, Shaggy 2 Dope
Rating60% 3.049213.049213.049213.049213.04921
The film loosely follows an English couple that travels to Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, United States to attend the ninth annual Gathering of the Juggalos. The 2008 event is the first Gathering that the couple has attended. While the couple explores the festival grounds, clips from the multiple events occurring are captured, including professional wrestling from Juggalo Championship Wrestling. Interviews about the fan base are conducted with artists Anybody Killa, Ice-T, Afroman, Boondox, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Three 6 Mafia, Twiztid, and Insane Clown Posse. Concert footage of the interviewed artists as well as the supergroups Psychopathic Rydas and Dark Lotus is included. The film concludes with the English couple getting unofficially married by Insane Clown Posse member Violent J.
Bon Jovi | When We Were Beautiful
Bon Jovi | When We Were Beautiful (2009)
, 1h15
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Jon Bon Jovi
Rating74% 3.7093253.7093253.7093253.7093253.709325
A documentary filmed behind the scenes of the Bon Jovi's Lost Highway tour in 2008.Also included is the groundbreaking band documentary When We Were Beautiful. Filmed while the band was on its unprecedented Lost Highway world tour, this is the first intimate look at this legendary group. Unlike the usual band documentary, When We Were Beautiful reveals the inner workings and unique personalities that have made Bon Jovi one of the most successful rock groups of all time.
Neil Young Journeys
Neil Young Journeys (2012)
, 1h27
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Neil Young, Jonathan Demme, Larry Johnson
Rating64% 3.2469553.2469553.2469553.2469553.246955
En Mai 2011, Neil Young conduit une Crown Victoria 1956, depuis sa ville natale idyllique de Omemee (Ontario), jusqu'au mythique Massey Hall de Toronto, où il assure en toute intimité les 2 dernières date de sa tournée mondiale. Sur la route, Young raconte ses souvenirs de jeunesse à Jonathan Demme, réalisateur oscarisé pour Philadelphia et le Silence des Agneaux. Demme,collaborateur et fan de longue date du musicien, a su capter ces instants de pure intimité, leur donnant une ampleur sans pareil en les accompagnant d'extraits de concert de l'artiste. Des performances live sublimes, incluant des titres extraits de son album Le Noise, les grands classiques "Ohio", "Hey Hey, My My","I Believe in You", et les inédits "Leia" et "You Never Call". A travers la musique et les histoires personnelles de Neil Young, Demme nous plonge de façon introspective et rétrospective dans le coeur et l'âme d'un artiste de légende.