Cabin Music (2024) with Director James Carson
Director: James Carson Run Time: 74 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2022
Country: United States, Canada, France, Japan, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom
Language: English
About the film:
Filmmaker, pianist, and star, James Carson, will perform live after the screening on January 19 at 1:30pm!
World Premiere — Doc NYC. After walking away from the New England Conservatory in Boston, James Carson backpacks overland from Spain to Japan. At the center of the story is the unusual off-grid cabin in the Canadian wilderness that James designs and builds by hand upon his return. It is here, away from everything, that the lived experiences and myriad threads interweave and a new form of music emerges.
About the filmmaker:
Pianist James Carson has developed a new form of music and over the last twelve years has produced and directed Cabin Music, a feature film, to share it with the world. When James attended the New England Conservatory his studies with Joe Maneri, Cecil Taylor, and the poet Robert Creeley led him to a dramatic life change: he walked away from music and spent two years backpacking and farming overland from Spain to Japan. After his return to Northern Alberta, Canada, he then spent five years designing, building, and practicing in a remote strawbale cabin. The musical result was multilayered, detailed, meditative, and harmonious. “I wanted to play the whole piano at once,” says Carson, “in the same way that a single breeze can cause the entire forest to dance and tremble in unison.” He lives in New York City and returns to his cabin regularly.
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