Take Away Shows: Expanded Cinema
Aug 22, 2010
At a time when MTV has reduced music to a lonely M, Vincent Moon deconstructs the music film and breathes a new lease of life into the genre. His Take Away Shows continue to impress music fans, who, via the internet, experience some of music’s biggest names playing in the streets of Paris, narrow staircases, mine shafts and even on the can!
Moon accompanies the musicians with his handheld camera, its mobility allowing him access to even the most intimate spaces—and the most intimate music. Moon is a master of the close-up and the portrait; he takes the film medium back to its roots with his handheld style and raw pictorial poetry. In this program, he shares his most recent Take Away Shows before they’re even posted to the web, giving us a musical travelogue of his latest stops.
"If you've never seen them, they're amazing intimate musical fragments of famous artists taken from Vincent Moon's handheld camera" —The Stranger