Helicopter String Quartet
1996, German. Directed by Frank Scheffer.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 17 October 1996
- Original title
- Helikopter Streichquartett
- Country
- Netherlands
- Written by
- Frank Scheffer
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Who directed Helicopter String Quartet?
Helicopter String Quartet (1996) was directed by Frank Scheffer and stars Karlheinz Stockhausen, Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings.