Movies: Holger Czukay

  • 1998
    Modulations

    Modulations (1998)

    Modulations

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    Less a documentary than a primer on all electronic music. Featuring interviews with nearly every major player past and present, as well as a few energetic live clips, Modulations delves into one of electronica's forgotten facets: the human element. L...

    Modulations
  • 2017
    Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise

    Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise (2017)

    Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise

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    When Conny died at the age of only 47, his son Stephan was just 13 years old. Twenty-five years later, together with co-director Reto Caduff, he went in search of the man he often only experienced behind the mixing desk as a child. At the same time i...

    Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise
  • 2022
    CAN and Me

    CAN and Me (2022)

    CAN and Me

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    In 1968, musician Irmin Schmidt and friends founded the avant-garde band "Can", which achieved worldwide fame. Schmidt also made a name for himself as a composer for films by Wim Wenders. In this documentary, the charismatic sound tinkerer looks back...

    CAN and Me
  • 1985
    Steel Cathedrals

    Steel Cathedrals (1985)

    Steel Cathedrals

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    20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed during that same month and recorded over a period of three days....

    Steel Cathedrals
  • 2009
    Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

    Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (2009)

    Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

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    Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war....

    Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
  • 2013
    Kraftwerk: Pop Art

    Kraftwerk: Pop Art (2013)

    Kraftwerk: Pop Art

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    This is the amazing story of how a group of reclusive Rhineland experimentalists became one of the most influential pop groups of all time - a celebration of the band featuring exclusive live tracks filmed at their Tate Modern shows in London (Feb 20...

    Kraftwerk: Pop Art
  • 1972
    CAN: The Free Concert

    CAN: The Free Concert (1972)

    CAN: The Free Concert

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    The experimental German krautrockers CAN's legendary "Free Concert," recorded in Cologne's Sporthalle, Germany, on February 3, 1972. The circumstances of this Cologne show were unusual. Rather improbably for such an experimental band, Can actually sc...

    CAN: The Free Concert
  • 1988
    Krieg der Töne

    Krieg der Töne (1988)

    Krieg der Töne

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    The 12 year old Ina struggle to become a great pianist. Success depends on the music competition "Ein Herz für Mozart". Ina is sent by her mother's command to piano lessons. The piano teacher Holger produces in his free time experimental music from s...

    Krieg der Töne
  • 1999
    CAN: The Documentary

    CAN: The Documentary (1999)

    CAN: The Documentary

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    The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled togethe...

    CAN: The Documentary
  • 1970
    Can - Live in Soest

    Can - Live in Soest (1970)

    Can - Live in Soest

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    ROCKPALAST FROM THE ARCHIVES WDR HD channel 84 min. - Genre: Rock ('Krautrock') - TV archives Can live in Soest, Germany - Winter 1970 Mixed media show Post-"Monster Movie" period (just before Can masterpieces "Soundtracks", "Tago Mago" and "Ege...

    Can - Live in Soest
  • 1991
    Holger Czukay - Der Privatsinfoniker

    Holger Czukay - Der Privatsinfoniker (1991)

    Holger Czukay - Der Privatsinfoniker

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    A portrait of the Cologne avant-garde composer and musician Holger Czukay, who called himself a “private symphonist”. In 1968, Czukay, a music college graduate and Stockhausen student, founded the band Can together with his fellow student Irmin Schm...

    Holger Czukay - Der Privatsinfoniker