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Intangible Asset Number 82
Meridian Gallery presents the SF Bay Area premiere of the documentary film "Intangible Asset Number 82," directed by Australian filmmaker and jazz vocalist Emma Franz and featuring Australian jazz drummer Simon Barker.
Director Emma Franz and musician Simon Barker will be in attendance and the screenings will include a Q&A session with both and a short solo performance by Simon. There will be a reception following each screening.
What lengths will people go to for their music? How do they discover the tools of self-expression and develop an individual voice? Where does the calling come from? What does it mean to be a musician in modern times?
Tackling these questions and more, Australian singer Emma Franz documents long time friend and colleague, Simon Barker an Australian drummer acclaimed as one of the most persuasive and individual voices in drumming today as he searches for enigmatic Korean Shaman, Kim Seok-Chul, a man he believes to be one of the world's great improvisers.
After hearing a recording some time ago, Barker made a commitment to find and learn from the shaman. Yet despite his official designation as South Korea's 82nd Intangible Asset, Kim Seok-Chul had remained elusive. After seven years of setbacks and obstacles, and with the shaman in his eighties, Barker's commitment had intensified and he returned to Korea for a seventeenth time. It is at this point that the film commences, his ongoing search creating the narrative against which his personal and musical transformations are revealed. Barker's journey becomes a rite of passage, as is led around the country by traditional musician and educator Kim Dong-Won (also a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project) and has meaningful encounters with other master musicians who will eventually lead him to the shaman under portentous circumstances.
Franz documented the journey observationally in High Definition, later utilizing the intimacy of a thought diary, various concert footage, interviews, and Super 8 elements to examine a deeper philosophical search for the tools of self-expression. The result is a layered story that provides intimate insight into the life of a creative musician, as he is inspired and transformed, and showcases music as a universal language.
SPECIAL OFFER!
Tickets are also available for a screening of Trimpin by Peter Esmonde at the Delancey Street Screening Room on April 10. Tickets to see the film and hear a question and answer session with Trimpin and the filmmaker are available for a discount with any ticket purchase to Intangible Asset Number 82. Buy tickets to both films for $25 at the "Begin Order" link above.
For more information about Trimpin, please see http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162396.
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LocationMeridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
United States
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