Helicopter String Quartet
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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.
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Frank Scheffer Director · Joost van Gelder Cinematographer René van der Eijk Cinematographer
United States release October 17, 1996 · Produced in Netherlands · Languages English, German
Production
Allegri Film
Production
Netherlands
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Languages
Original title
Helikopter Streichquartett
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
United States · October 17, 1996
Premiere · Chicago International Film Festival
Argentina
April 14, 2005 · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Germany
October 18, 1996 · Premiere · Mannheim Heidelberg International Film Festival
Netherlands
January 1, 2005
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