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IDFA 2019

Daybreak Express

D.A. Pennebaker
United States
1953
5 min
Festival history

Perhaps D.A. Pennebaker’s oeuvre can best be compared to one long road movie. With a remarkable talent for being in the right place at the right time, he captured almost all milestones in rock ‘n’ roll history. His swaying camera became a typical stylistic device, setting the pace for all subsequent rockumentaries.

Compared to these films, his firstling is very clean. In Daybreak Express the morning subway races in the direction of New York, set to Duke Ellington’s music. Owing to the combination of jazz rhythms and shots of sun-drenched skyscrapers the film could be considered a precursor of the video clip.

Courtesy of Pennebaker Hegedus Films.

Credits
Director
Music
    Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
Screening copy
    The Criterion Collection
    The Criterion Collection

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