Films by Anca Miruna Lazarescu

Germany 2009, 28 min
by Anca Miruna Lazarescu

In a small church in Halberstadt, in East Germany, a pipe organ plays avant-garde composer John Cage’s "Organ2/ASLSP" – and will do so day and night, without interruption, until the year 2640, resulting in a 639-year long concert. In a humorous but also thoughtful way the film shows different sides of this mind-boggling project: on the one hand the long and overly intellectual wrestles among the initiators, on the other the volunteering staff members’ direct and practical way of dealing with all