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Helicopter String Quartet (Helikopter Streichquartett)
Overview
One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in the clouds, with each of a quartet’s members tucked inside his own chopper, communicating through headsets, stringing away in sync to the rotor-blade motors. He immediately set forth to make that dream a reality. In 1995, Dutch film director Scheffer followed Stockhausen in the days leading up to the premiere performance of his Helicopter String Quartet in Amsterdam. The resulting film offers a rare glimpse of Stockhausen as he patiently dictates every agonizingly detailed measure to the Arditti Quartet.
Key Crew
Director: Frank Scheffer
Producer: Frank Scheffer, Ton Van Der Lee
Director of Photography: René van der Eijk, Roelf-Jan Wentholt, Joost van Gelder
Writer: Frank Scheffer
