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Wild Combination: A portrait of Arthur Russell (adv 15)

Monday 1 December
Sallis Benney Theatre 8:00PM

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WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL
Director: Matt Wolf. With: Allen Ginsberg, Phillip Glass. USA 2008. 70 mins.

WILD COMBINATION is a low-key appreciation of the multitalented musician whose 1980s New York heyday incorporated work in pop, classical and disco. Perhaps long-neglected since his untimely death from AIDS in 1992 this documentary assess Russell’s career in an informative manner and goes someway to highlight just why his emerging cult status is so deserved. After leaving his native Iowa, Russell discovers Buddhism and Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco before following the Beat poet to New York where he meets and starts a collaboration with Phillip Glass. In 1974 he took over the music direction of arts centre ‘The Kitchen’, and was soon marrying orchestral music and pop sensibilities to the nascent disco scene. Director Matt Wolf demonstrates Russell’s importance as an artist to the New York scene in this ultimately moving story of a musical visionary who died tragically young.

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