Simply one of the most beautiful and moving music documentaries I have ever seen. Cohen at the peak of his power, mesmerising audiences with beautiful, sad songs.” Cohen was a pop star with literary language, a self-aware man of deep thought often discounted as a simple bard of love songs. But how he saw the world and interpreted it with eloquent, heartbreaking words, will never be replicated.” Palmer smartly lets performances of select songs run almost all the way though. His voice has long haunted me now his eyes do too. (Cohen) generally spins wisdom out of thin air.
#Bird on a wire movie
The movie is a worthy time capsule and a must for Cohen devotees.” Palmer captures all this with a keen eye. Palmer and his crew… (Cohen) was always a remarkable live performer. Mr Cohen granted extraordinary access to Mr. (However there are no online ticket sales for this film.) Note: Tickets are available for every show at our box office on day of show only. A portrait of a deeply reflective, surprisingly genial artist, at his creative peak. He even offers to reimburse disgruntled Dutch concertgoers after the sound system goes kaput. Directed by Tony Palmer, this long-lost movie, never released theatrically, captures vintage Cohen – singing backstage with his band, gamely enduring press interviews, balking at encores (only to be gently coaxed back on stage by producer/bandmate Bob Johnston), self-deprecatingly funny, and humbly assessing life on the road (“Iike some parrot chained to his stand night after night”). Local musicians were used in Toronto, Taipei, Ramallah, and Montreal.LEONARD COHEN: BIRD ON A WIRE follows the legendary musician/songwriter/poet (1934-2016) during his 1972 European concert tour, performing many of his classics (“Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Chelsea Hotel,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” “So Long, Marianne”). The film is screened with live music accompaniment, using local musicians in each city that it is performed in. Local musicians were used in Toronto, Taipei, Ramallah, and Montreal. Bird on a Wire combines music, performance, improvisation, projection and the relationship between these elements sutured together with content exploring the current anxiety and condition of people in relation to space, notions of home, displacement, exile and war. Of particular interest to me as a photo-based installation artist and filmmaker, is to push the medium further, whether it be in single channel projection or installation based-work. It is a contemporary work that reflects the dis-ease and uncertainty of our current world as well as our insistent desire and need to incorporate those wounds and transform them.
Despite this, the piece attempts to represent the spaces we manage to extract from within this chaos, which in turn create new and anachronistic forms and sounds. The piece speaks to the tensions that currently exist in an increasingly chaotic world as cultures clash with one another through displacement, exile, war and economies, and wherein technologies clash with environments. Her work with improvisation was to become a perfect complement for these seemingly random yet patterned instances.īoth the music performance as well as the visual component of Bird on a Wire takes its cue from improvisation. Wanting to then mimic the language of these recorded moments, of these interventions, I decided to team up with acclaimed jazz and experimental Canadian composer and musician, Marilyn Lerner. I continued to collect images that resisted those definitions.įinding solace in the patterning of birds and the unusual marriage of birds in an urban landscape, birds on wires, birds in train stations and airports, I recorded these moments as both reminders and escapes of the everyday. As I continued my travels, experiencing varying forms of unrest, war, conflict, suspicion, etc. Beginning this project in the midst of filming Zero Degrees of Separation, I felt the need to eke-out a space in which to experience normalcy in madness. Using a mobile phone, a still camera, a video recorder and sometimes Super 8 and 16mm, I recorded the everyday in the extraordinary. Bird on a Wire is a project that crosses the disciplines of sound, film, video, installation and performance expanding the limits of cinema and challenging the crossover between film, art and sound works. Music Composed and Performed by: Marilyn Lernerīird on a Wire is a two-channel film projection accompanied by a live music performance that will be screened in five cities over the period of one year.
Two-screen projection with live music performance
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