Sunny's Time Now
2008 | 108m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | Antoine Prum |
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| Writer: | Antoine Prum |
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| Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassesses the relationship between the libertarian music movement and the political events of the 1960s, whose social claims it so intimately reflected. By doing so, it also recounts how the most radical forms of musical expression were excluded from the major production and distribution networks as the libertarian ideal went out of fashion. Beyond its historical approach, the film follows Sunny Murray on current gigs, showing his daily struggle to perpetuate a musical genre which is still widely ignored by the general public. In doing so, Sunny's time now also dwells on the near-clandestine community of aficionados who continue to worship the gods of their musical coming of age, and whose unfaltering support has permitted free ... | |
| Release Date: | Nov 14, 2008 |
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| Director: | Antoine Prum |
| Writer: | Antoine Prum |
| Genres: | Music, Documentary |
| Keywords | free jazz, sunny murray, cecil taylor, val wilner, edwin pouncey |
| Production Companies | Paul Thiltges Distributions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 (Update) Entered: May 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Sunny Murray | Self |
| Cecil Taylor | Self |
| Tony Oxley | Self |
| Val Wilmer | Self |
| Robert Wyatt | Self |
| Edwin Pouncey | Self |
| Name | Job |
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| Antoine Prum | Writer, Director, Director of Photography |
| Theo Thiesmeier | Director of Photography |
| Fabrizio Dörig | Sound Recordist |
| Camille Cottagnoud | Director of Photography |
| Ken Fitzke | Sound Recordist |
| Alexandre Davidson | Sound Recordist |
| Damien Dufresne | Sound Recordist |
| Carlo Thiel | Director of Photography |
| Gilles Laurent | Sound Recordist |
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| David Tioulong Grumbach | Executive Producer |
| Paul Thiltges | Producer |
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