This documentary is a journey into our own fascination, a collection of portraits of folk musicians living in New England, and a study of the ground on which their music is founded. We listen to them as they tell their stories and play their music. First and foremost, Behind a Hill is a tribute to these musicians and a rare peep into the house parties and basement jams of New England, in the northwestern corner of the USA, with the vain hope attached that maybe you, the viewer, will grow as fond of the music as we have. When we first encountered these musicians, we were overwhelmed by the quality of their musical output. We were entranced by the melodies, harmonies, rhythms, and tempos and every other element that constitutes a song (or, as is often the case, a piece of abstract drone music, heavy feedback, or someone banging a steel pipe against a bag of dirt while chanting in a yet undiscovered language, or...).
When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's U...
In the beginning the idea was to make something from nothing, in a neutral and unknown place. Collec...
Video collage distributed by the label Come Organisation. I - IV. Noise, smut, medical procedures, ...
'Nonsense' piece inserted between Acts Two and Three of Jethro Tull's A Passion Play, which bears no...
Lenka Dusilová is an extraordinary figure in the Czech music scene: an original composer, multi-inst...
A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions...
This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in ...
As children, British actor Paul Blackthorne and Australian photographer Mister Basquali both fell in...
"I was visiting Jerome Hill. Jerome loved France, especially Provence. He spent all his summers in C...
Follow Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy,...
The music they make gives us joy and comfort. Now they will get something back. Christine Dancke bri...
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is ...
'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body an...
Carly Simon is one of the most influential singer-songwriters of her generation. The classic album t...
Homeless veterans find family as they rent rooms from an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to suppor...
Images and sound captured in Zamboanga city Mindanao, Philippines. During sunset. Part of the Azan s...
"Filmed in Cairo, in Al-Azhar Park, sunset during Isha'a praying time. The city becomes a Chorus. D...
A collection of his best songs, sung in collaboration with Jimmy MacCarthy, Wally Page, Shane MacGo...
Folk music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie became internationally renowned with her protest song "Universal ...
Image by Carlos Casas. Double screen projection with live soundtrack. Images and sound captured on...