Stop for Bud (Stopforbud) 60 years old

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

Credits

Stop for Bud Cast

Name	Character
Dexter Gordon He was 40, 67 years old when he died	as Narrator (voice)
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen He was 17, 58 years old when he died	as Himself

Stop for Bud Crew

Name	Department
Jørgen Leth as Director. He was 26 (now 87) years old	Directing
Jens Jørgen Thorsen as Director. He was 31 (68) years old when He died	Directing
Ole John as Cinematography. He was 24 (now 85) years old	Crew
Ole John as Director. He was 24 (now 85) years old	Directing
Ole John as Producer. He was 24 (now 85) years old	Production
Ole John as Writer. He was 24 (now 85) years old	Writing