Michel Carrière
1995 - 61 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France
This film is an exploration of the "spirit of the blues", in the footprints of Julio Finn, Afro-American bluesman and writer.
From the ghetto to the museum, from slavery to the fight for civil rights, from New York to Chicago, from the Delta sound to the world music, the blues blowed almost anywhere in the world.
In Julio Finn's tracks, the sequences of the film give us various fresh points of view on this music and the sources of its might, on the part it took in its original sphere, and on the way it influenced many Afro-American artists. We discover the spirit of the blues by entering the inner world of several different artists.
Thus, like a travel note-book, this narration drives us to a meeting with the Afro-American culture and its most advanced expression : the blues.
Author-Director : Michel Carrière
Author : Julio Finn, Marc Oriol
Delegate Producer : Les Productions Anamorphose
Broadcasting Co-producer : La Sept ARTE
Contribution : DMDTS (Direction de la Musique, de la Danse, du Théâtre et du Spectacle), FIAC, Consortium de Dijon, Palais de Tokyo - Site de création contemporaine, CNC, Procirep
Distribution
Distributor : Les Productions Anamorphose
Not commercial Distribution : Images de la culture (CNC)
Circulation-Consultation : BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Département de l'Audiovisuel
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