The Orchestra (1990)
- Directed by
- Zbigniew Rybczyński
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- France, Poland, United States, Japan
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Rating
- 8.9 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man's life and death are shown as a single continuous whole, from beginning to end. The film moves through six different locations, each set to a famous classical music piece.
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What happens
The Orchestra (Polish: Orkiestra) is a 1990 film directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. It is a phantasmagoric work, filled with symbols and cultural references. It presents the fate of a man whose life and death constitute an inseparable and coherent whole: in the opening and closing scenes of the film, a hearse appears. According to Tadeusz Sobolewski: "The way of presenting the fate of a man as a whole, in one image, brings to mind medieval or Renaissance allegories." The film also contains references to communist systems and the inevitable fall of each of them. The entire Orchestra consists of six smoothly successive sequences, each of which takes place in a different place and is illustrated by one of the famous compositions, respectively: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, Fryderyk Chopin's Funeral March, Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio, Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, Franz Schubert's Ave Maria, Maurice Ravel's Boléro. The film was produced in the HDTV system, in the director's own studio, Zbig Vision Studio in Hoboken near New York. Thanks to the devices that Rybczyński himself constructed, he was able to obtain the effect of flowing, rotating spaces. The choreography was authored by Patricia Birch. For the needs of the Orchestra, in addition to those in the studio, shots were taken in the Louvre, Chartres Cathedral and the Garnier Opera. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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