Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)

Jan 01, 1974 29m

6.7

6 votes

Documentary

Synopsis

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film is rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick, white porcelain cup perched on a ship's rail, the tea within swaying gently in sync with the ship while the sea rushes by beyondthe faces of crewmen posing awkwardly but also movingly for the camera; a cockfight on ship; scenes from a bucolic pre–Pol Pot Phnom Penh. Images has the haunting elegiac resonance of Eugène Atget's Paris, the echo of a time and place that was." - MoMA

Title	Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
Companies
Countries	United States of America
Keywords	black and white, short film, silent