Patrick

“To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail”, says Maurice Tani, early musical partner of the deceased San Francisco dance music pioneer Patrick Cowley, about his colleague’s working methods. The same statement can be applied to Luke Fowler’s impressionistic exploration of the musician’s social, technical, and geographical milieus. Rooms, papers, records, instruments, voices; every nail helps to rebuild the house in which Cowley worked and gives a sense of his art, which still lingers in the spaces he once passed through. (Patrick Holzapfel)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 1: INHERITANCES.