HELICOPTER STRING QUARTET

HELICOPTER STRING QUARTET, 1995
Netherlands | 35mm, Color, 75’ | German, English
Director: Frank Scheffer

The film is about one of the best-known pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen, a ground-breaking composer of contemporary classical music. Director Frank Scheffer documents the intensive preparations in the month leading up to the premiere of the work while also presenting insights on the composer’s experience as he conceived it.