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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Electro-Pythagoras (a Portrait of Martin Bartlett)
Electro-Pythagoras (a Portrait of Martin Bartlett)
Luke Fowler
Canada, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
With this film Luke Fowler pays tribute to the work and musical ideas of Martin Bartlett (1939-93) a proudly gay Canadian composer who during the 1970s and 1980s pioneered the use of the ‘microcomputer’. Bartlett is hardly recognised, never mind canonised, in cultural life. He researched intimate relationships with technology and was particularly interested in handmade electronics.
Director biography
Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler (b. 1978, Glasgow) is an artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. His work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary filmmaking, and has often been compared to the British Free Cinema of the 1950s. Working with archival footage, photography and sound, Fowler’s filmic montages create portraits of intriguing, counter cultural figures, including Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing and English composer Cornelius Cardew.
Finished
Sessions
May
Friday 28
18:00 h
Museo Reina Sofia. Edificio Sabatini, Auditorio
June
Sunday 06
12:00 h
Museo Reina Sofia. Edificio Sabatini, Auditorio
Credits
Language
English - Subtitles in spanish
Director
Luke Fowler