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Amérique du Nord

a mosaïque of American movies

Amérique du Nord

mini music movie (16′33″)

music

composed by Richard Rijnvos

performance

The Royal Concertgebouw orchestra
conducted by Gustavo Gimeno
Concertgebouw Amsterdam (3 february 2017)

images

a mosaïque of American movies
fragments from:

Steven Spielberg - AI (2001)
The Blue fairy under water in New York City

Alex Proyas - Knowing (2009)
Solar storm destruction scene of New York City

Tim Burton - Mars Attacks! (1996)
Martians landing in America

Victor Fleming - The Wizard of Oz (1930)
Dorothy & Toto unveiling the Wizard of Oz

David Lynch - Blue Velvet (1986)
Opening sequence

Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (1941)
Opening sequence

Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Major Kong riding the bomb  

Walt Disney - Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Little Alice drinking the bottle

Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise - West Side Story (1961)
Dancing scene on the roof
Fighting scene in the basement

Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound (1945)
Salvador Dali Dream sequences
Suicide scene

Alfred Hitchcock - Saboteur (1942)
Murder scene at Statue of Liberty

Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho (1961)
Murder scene in shower

Tim Burton - Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice falling into the rabbit hole

Walt Disney - Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Alice hurrying to the rabbit hole

Mark Sandrich - Top Hat (1935)
Fred Astaire & top hats dancing sequence
Ballet dance sequences

Michael Bay - Transformers (2007)
Soldiers battle with Transformer Robots in the desert

Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest (1959)
Crop duster scene with Cary Grant
Two men waiting in the desert

Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill: Volume II (2004)
Uma Thurman seeking revenge in the desert

Martin Scorsese - Casino (1995)
Meeting of two Mafiosi in the desert

 

Baz Luhrmann - Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Leonardo di Caprio in the desert

Wim Wenders - Paris Texas (1984)
Harry Dean Stanton walking in the desert
Eagle lands on a rock

Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver (1976)
Taxi driver Robert de Niro driving through New York City

Ted Wilde - Speedy (1928)
Taxi driver Harold Lloyd chased by police

Archive material (1920s)
New York city full with cars, busses and trains

Roland Emmerich - The Patriot (2000)
The American Revolution
Scene from the Battle of Camden

Raoul Walsh - The Big Trail (1930)
Pelgrims invading America
Caravan wagons going West

BBC documentary - Pilgrims (2015)
Animation of ships arriving in America

Walt Disney - Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Alice falling into the rabbit hole

John Ford - The Searchers (1959)
Cowboys shooting Indians

The Antoine Fuqua - The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Explosion, horses & cowbows

Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Spaceship floating in space

NASA (2015)
Footage from ISS flying over North America
North America on the globe

video pastiche

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